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The Complete History of Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins Action Figures · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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  How Jury Can Crown. He's a Dingo podcast, doctor show, fucking thing,
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  Glenda, What you say? March Show? What's up? Everybody?
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  Hello, and welcome to a special edition on the Major Wrestling Figure podcast YouTube
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  channel. It is the incarnation of Zach Ryder and Kurt Hawkins Action Figures.
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  I am your host, the most professional wrestler, Brian Myers, the artist
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  formerly known It's Kurt Hawkins, and I'm your host, the death Match King,
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  the Indie God, the Internet Shaving always Ready, Matt Cardona f k
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  A. Zach Ryder Rest in Peace? Oh my god, you you let
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  that happen on this show Indie Graphic. I won't let it happen on Indie
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  Graphic, okay, but if you do it, it's okay. Hey,
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  guys, I'm also here Bruce the show. Smart Mark Sterling, this is
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  all new, the artist formerly known as Raw Extra Talent. That's true.
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  Yeah, there was no figures made of Smart Mark Sterling, the Raw Talent.
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  But I am excited for this because I think, just like many of
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  the viewers today, you know, I know some of these things. I
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  have no idea the way they went, the order they went, how you
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  guys felt the bottom. I know Brosky's got somewhere between four and fifty matel
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  figures. Who knows that a couple of stems along the way here, I'm
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  along for the ride, as are all of the viewers here on YouTube and
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  audio. So well, first and foremost, we want to say thank you
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  to all our listeners and viewers. We promised this special incarnation of very long
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  long time ago. Took a long time to get done. We wanted to
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  do it right, do it proper, have our examples at our side,
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  right, and here we are today, so we're all thrilled to finally get
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  this done. Well, we said this was for one hundred thousand subscribers on
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  YouTube. Yeah we're a little late. Well you know, maybe we originally
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  set one hundred and ten thousand, because we just said that that's what we
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  really meant. We want, yes, exactly, and we're going to get
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  a new goal for the incarnation of Brian and Matt actual one hundred and eleven
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  thousand for those who know the incarnation of domination. Let's let everyone know you're
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  going to get all the incarnations of these figures, all the Zachs, all
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  the Kurts, our mandep Freedom, got us the nice images, we'll show
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  them inn on card images, and then Brian and I will go through our
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  loose collection, tell us tell you our feelings about each figure, if there's
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  a backstory, maybe if there was a prototype versus the actual release figure.
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  So we'll do a little deep dive on all that. So, yeah,
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  should we start with Jacks? I mean, should we start? I mean
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  I think what we really have to start with is the idea of becoming a
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  professional wrestler. And you have your bucket list, achievements, things you want
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  to you know, do in your career, and obviously for us, it
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  actually I mean, if I think for anybody it actual figures on that list,
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  right, because I think, even like somebody with a black heart,
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  like Nick Nemmath, even he kind of thinks that's cool, right, But
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  for us, it's exceptionally exciting. You and I are very different. But
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  uh, let's let's take a step back to like, you know what that
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  was like for us, you know, the very first time. I mean,
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  you know, we've been so fortunate. It's happened many a times for
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  us since then, but you always remember your first well, even before you
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  go back, let me ask you, guys, this. Do you think
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  that there would be Zach and Kurt without wrestling Action Figures? Right? So,
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  like, even even going back, you guys have said it before,
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  your love big beds and creating these things is sort of what really made you
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  obsessed with wrestling, right, Yeah, it definitely brought it to a whole
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  new level for sure, because it wasn't just watching it, you know,
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  on Mondays or Saturday mornings. With the figures, you could create your own
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  federations and keep it going every single day of the week. And then you
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  know, fantasy book, make your own champions, your own storylines. So
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  the action figures definitely played a huge role in my childhood and then my teenage
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  years and into college and even today. Yeah, I've always said WWF Hasro
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  was just like the gateway to my wrestling fandom because it took something off the
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  screen and put it in my hands. And like Matt said, but you
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  puts you in charge. You know, your imagination has almost no limit when
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  it comes to something like that. I guess the kind of weird thing that
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  I guess Matt I should and Matt kind of half a you know, admitted
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  to just now is like okay, so We've loved wrestling figures our whole life.
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  You know, WWF hasro went on and we've collected every incarnation and play
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  with every incarnation. Now we are ww Superstars. There's Ruth at time,
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  there's Ruthless Aggression actual figures produced by Jacks and like, there's no doubt we
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  had these end played with them, you know what I mean? Oh,
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  I definitely had a becoming one. That's why I love the Ruth's Aggression figure
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  so much and why I do have one of each characters because it's it's a
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  weird time where not only do we have the figures, we're in the lineup,
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  but I was collecting sledsh playing with them whether I want to admit it
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  or not beforehand. So I love the Ruthlesus aggression style of figures. It
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  might be my favorite style of figures. Wow, I mean I do like
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  that. It's they're larger than life to a degree, but not overly done
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  like a maximum sweat guy or something like that, you know, where it's
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  not realistic at all. You know, everyone's kind of a little more bulked
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  up than they should be. But that there's something about action figures I think
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  that makes that kind of fun and you know romantic that I mean, all
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  figures a little beefed up. Yeah, these these all there's so many of
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  them that hold up to the point where you'd be proud to have a lot
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  of these on your shelf. Still, yeah, listen, I still believe
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  that the Jacks real scan. Yeah, it's better than what Mattel does right
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  now with the triple H spit industry standard, pal industry standard. And listen,
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  there's no denying Mattel especially, you know, elites and ultimates have way
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  better, you know, playability, way better for figure photography. But I
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  I think that a Ruth's Aggression figure is the best for playing. Even though
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  you know you can make weird poses, it's almost too hard. They get
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  all wonky with with an elite. There was something I think like about Ruth's
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  Gresh figures when they came out that I was like, oh my god,
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  and especially it was kind of coincided with us learning how to wrestle, and
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  I would always kind of justify it. It's like, well, I'm trying
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  to like figure out spots and where I should be in the ring and if
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  this move would work, and then like having a Ruth Disgression figure and doing
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  that, you know, so I'm like playing with them, but I'm not
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  like at that point, maybe I don't have a fake FED, but I'm
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  definitely like, oh, I'm doing fake Kidman's Icy Champ. Really like,
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  I don't know Kidman's in the set, but I'm definitely messing around with these
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  figures and playing with them a little bit more than it probably should have been.
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  All Right, well, do you remember, you know, when we
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  first saw the figures, or obviously we debut for those who don't know,
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  May one, two thousand and seven, Major Brothers, and at that time,
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  everybody and their mother was getting that Ruth's Aggression figure. So I'm thinking,
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  of course the Majors are gonna get one like Jim and I pirate Paul
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  Burchell a tie. It wasn't an unrealistic goal at the time. Whereas now
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  if someone with as little or as unexciting TV time as the Major Brothers have,
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  there's like, you're like, okay, they're like Guy's and Anderstonment back
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  two years, they haven't even sniffed a figure yet, you know what I
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  mean, Like you got to be seen and be in the mix to kind
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  of justify being on the pegs nowadays. Back then it was like you just
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  need to be on the rosters. So like, if you debut, you're
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  getting a fig We're twenty one twenty two debut on TV and we're like,
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  oh my god, we're gonna get Ruth's gretion X figures. This rules.
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  So you said, May two thousand and seven, this line, this Gress's
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  line. When does it start exactly? No? Three? Because it has
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  Sena's and everybody's first figure. So I want to say it's two oh three.
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  It has to be a three because all those figures depict oh two,
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  So three I would say, is is nodding? Yes, So it's my
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  senior year of high school? Are our senior year of high school? Got
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  it? Spoiler guys, we don't get Major Brothers, but I do.
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  I'll talk about it after we do. Hawk As a rider, I have
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  some evidence that maybe we were gonna evidence. All right, well, so
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  at the time, you know, we have a very like I said,
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  unexciting run is the Major Brothers and quickly pivoted to the edgehead run that we've
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  you know, got talked about in detail. Forever Grateful to Uncle Adam and
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  the experience that you know we were able to have with him, and then
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  we knew like, oh, we're freaking made men. Now you're a Treasurer's
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  trio. Yeah. And I think like we kind of willed this treacherous trios
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  into existence because at the time there was three packs exclusive to Toys r Us
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  and sometimes they were like a match, like a triple threat, or like
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  in this case, a stable that made sense or whatever, or you know,
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  actually sometimes they made no sense at all. But I think we kind
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  of really like willed this into existence that this would be it. And at
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  the time, our friend Todd worked at Ringside Collectibles and Ringsyde Collectives worked hand
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  in hand with Jacks obviously because they were distributor. He was able to secure
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  like the hand painted prototypes way before anything else was out there. And this
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  is like super market when I was on the road. In my bedroom I
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  had set up at the time, this is think about this two thousand and
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  eight of w in the edgehead's main event thing every night doing all this crazy
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  stuff around the world. But in my bedroom I had a Jack's raw ring,
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  Jack's SmackDown ring, and a Jacks E. CW ring And anytime a
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  guy which I would have one of each guy in their perspective the same thing.
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  Yeah. Yeah, lined up my room as like a decoration. Like
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  that's how proud I was to be a wrestling figure fan and a WW superstar.
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  So then I came home from the road. I'll never forget it.
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  You know, you're tired, delirious. I don't know where I flew in
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  from. And I was like dropping my stuff off in my room and I
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  did like a quadruple take, and I could tell like Paul and Todd were
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  kind of like clocking me to like see what I was doing, and he
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  had snuck my Kurk Hawkins handpainted prototype in the SmackDown ring. Mmm. I
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  was like, what the what? What the That was the first time I
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  ever saw it. Well, I think we saw photos before that, because
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  I remember being on an overseas tour with WW, and I feel like the
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  Edgeheads had already ended, you know, because figures take time to come out,
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  and this was in our I want to say, it's like the Fall
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  two thousand and eight. See photos and we're on overseas tour. Jaxson sent
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  them to us. I remember I got him and showed him to you,
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  and it was like an old school email where we had to wait for it
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  to download. Yeah yeah, yeah, like one bar at a time,
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  where it's like revealing the picture. I was so pumped to get it.
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  You know, obviously it's a dream, lifelong dream, but to have it
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  actually become a reality is something completely different. So the gear looks awesome.
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  I'm looking at this picture, be honest with you, Who's who really?
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  So I begged a different up close, like if you see mine, I
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  think let's go. Let's go full screen on bri might be one of the
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  best scans of all time. Like obviously I'm a little bit older now.
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  This is okay Borderlin twenty years ago, but I check me out and look
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  and check this out right here, guys, I was supposed to I was
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  supposed to come with a beanie, a soft Goods beanie that was you know,
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  obviously scrapped, but I have it. This is the hand painted prototype
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  right here, which obviously hand painted prototypes get way more detail. Like that
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  is my mean face right there. Okay, the close ups you can tell
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  that that packaging picture it was just basically the sable mark. That was the
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  gimmick of the edge heads. We were supposed to be edged Toppleganger. So
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  I was devastated that I didn't actually come with the beanie. But I'm glad
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  that the uh, the prototype at least has it. And I'm glad that
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  Jack's was able to get it to us because now Mattel, you don't get
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  stuff from Mattel prototype wise, No way, no way. Also, what
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  what what is that? Brian? There's different wrisk tape. Oh what are
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  you talking about? Oh wait, those are two mats, that's what those
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  are? Two mats. What the heck? See a second, if you
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  hold up your Brian, that's your factory, Brian. Yeah, now look
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  look at the extra detail like on the kickpads from the the lines. Yeah,
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  I don't have that, so nothing even on the back. It's called
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  cost cutting and the business cutting. So prototypes are always way way better,
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  but they wished it to be right right. Yeah, So Toys r US
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  Exclusive three pack, I mean I would go to Toys r US and I
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  mean I would never leave one of these on the pegs. I would just
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  get them. You know, did you see them a lot? Yeah?
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  Oh yeah, you know it's interesting with Toys r US and stuff back then,
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  you know, guys on in Aw even now saying like they've never seen
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  their figure, you know on the pecks. It's like something it's hit or
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  miss. Well, nowadays I do think it's cool with toys. Rus still
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  exist in Canada and they carry aw figure, so you can kind of go
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  there and have like half a moment. I would say, you know,
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  live that experience for sure. Now we don't have proof of this, and
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  this what I was alluding to earlier, but I have a gut feeling that
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  maybe we were slotted as the Major Brothers because the heads could have been these
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  Major brother heads. I feel like I remember getting scanned as the Major Brothers.
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  Yeah, and I I mean in this edgehead run, I pretty much
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  only like warm my hair in like a ponytail, and this looks way more.
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  This just looks more like Brian Major to me. And Brett Major.
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  Well, this is what I was sticklers. This is a test shot.
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  It has obviously the the either Brett Major or Zach Ryder. Heead on a
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  striker with Trunk's body, which would work, which would have made sense.
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  It would have made sense for a Major brother. But who knows this could
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  have you know, how these test shots are. Somebody could have just put
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  parts together. Right. So I'm just speculating right now, but in my
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  heart of hearts, I want to believe that we were supposed to be set
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  or something. Yeah, listen, they made everybody. I mean you could
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  count probably on one hand who they didn't make. You know what I'm saying
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  from that era, Dude, it's it's slim. Like I think maybe they
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  missed the heart throbs and that's it, like like maybe they made Highlanders,
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  the dicks and the heart throws. Yeah, who got like screwed. They
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  made Colin Delaney, Scott Runner, Scott got screwed, Gunner Scott, They
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  made Pirate, Paul Burchell, they made the Ripper, Paul Burchell, Sylvester
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  Turquai. But all those guys were longer, like at least a year.
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  Arts were literally only eight months. Dicks were not Marcus Corvan. I mean
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  that's the short like the Turquai is a short run, a lot of short
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  runs. Just a dream literally a dream of Drew. And it's the coolest
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  thing. Did we say toys are us exclusive? I've said that several times,
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  and I will say this, it's a paneastice now because the box is
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  so big. It's a heavy, big bubble. It's hard to get absolutely
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  minty. But I think that's what I love about it really is that it's
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  like it's us and edge. It is so cool, you know, for
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  your first thing. I think it's just you know, I think I m
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  t rather this than a a Brian major like in a single card and in
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  the Ruther's Question series. You know this, There's so much more about this
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  that's special to me. And not to spoil the whole episode, but our
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  first figure Edgeheads, our last we figure Edgeheads. I was literally just that
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  is cool and that just popped in my mind right now, really neat until
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  you guys go back on soon. God, well have so much stuff,
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  all right? Next up we have these little guys, the Build and Brawls.
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  Through this episode, I'm realizing I don't have a lot of these loose.
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  So here's a mint On cardboy right there. So you don't have this
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  like on display, and I have him on display in the box what I
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  display all my stuff? I ment on card So Bill and Brawl was a
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  concept from Jack's where they're obviously scaled down. Here's your comparison, same articulation
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  stuff as a you know, a Deluxe figure, even as like the ab
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  Crunch or whatever, they were scaled down figures. I guess fre easier play.
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  I don't know. They were hit for a little bit and quickly faded.
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  I beieve our line is like one of the lines, the first lines
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  where it like was kind of just fell off the rails. It's a Sergeant
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  Slaughter, Santina Morella, Kobe Kingston, Curd Hawkins, Zach Ryder, and
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  Ray Mysterio. You can build an elimination chambers, yeah, but like every
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  set was different, like this one came a pieces of the chamber. Other
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  ones came with a ring like things like that that you could build. So
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  pretty fun, I think concept, yeah, but just it didn't catch on,
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  I would say on the package series six. So I hated this gear.
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  And let's just say this, these come out edgeheads are done like the
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  run is over, like we're Hawkins and Rider, but the Edgeheads were not
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  with edge anymore, right, So like at this point we're not doing anything
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  on TV. You know these came out at Yeah, when they come out
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  where just like floundering big time. So you're not in the elimination chamber that
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  year. Definitely. No, I don't even think we get sent to it.
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  I hate this gear, and you know, we'll talk about later.
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  I have two figures in this gear. I wore one time. It was
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  a one time where and not like, oh my god, so so special,
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  I'm gonna only wear it once. It was I hated it so much
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  that I only wore it once. Don't it becomes two figures. Yeah,
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  I don't know how that happens. Because Broski went and took a ton of
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  still photos. Well we always do that because we're professionals. But yeah,
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  I don't remember these coming out second, but if de freedoms as it does,
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  and so in my mind, the the Deluxe is next and then these
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  like slowly trickled I know. I also want to say these are toys Russ
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  exclusive as well. Mm hmm, I can't. I could be wrong about
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  that, I want to, but I remember that's the only place that we
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  were able to find them. Hey, I'm honored that were included in the
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  line, and I'll take any figure they make. And it's just another one.
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  And here's a fun little tidbit for everyone out there. I had this
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  on my wedding cake and I got a little figure of the little Mermaid.
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  So it looks like my wife next to me and was on top of our
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  wedding cake. That's cool. Did you make that yourself? Did somebody do
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  that? I just did it for fun. I thought it was cool for
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  my men on card collection. I have to count this Hawkins because I feel
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  like it goes with the zach Ryder. Now, for instance, in a
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  later elite line, I don't need the Kurt Hawkins because it doesn't go with
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  the zach Ryder. But this one does, so I feel like I have
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  to have it. How many Primo figures do you have? Then there's no,
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  there's no Primo in the city. But not in the same line,
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  not in the same set. Okay, Oh it has to be in the
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  same set. Yeah, the same set. I don't know. But if
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  you tag with him, then he comes comes out in that gear. Well
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  that didn't happen. So it didn't happen. Let's go to the next one,
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  guys our, in my opinion, our first so low figure. It
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  is deluxe aggression Jack real lean. So Jack here is mine right here,
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  spots nailed it to have our first ever solo figure. I know, really
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  cool figure. I love it. I think mine is like, I fucking
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  hate it, and I'll explain one. I think mind is like flawless.
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  This is the gear. I'm so mad about this. This is the gear
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  that I wore most of the Edge run posts, not trying to look like
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  Edge anymore. You know. They told us eventually, like we want you
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  guys to be you know, stars on your own and have people be able
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  to differentiate you guys. So I switched the trunks, Brosky switched along tights.
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  Did you guys have a discussion about that where you're like, I want
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  to wear trunks? Yeah, yeah, totally, Like it was like on
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  purpose, you know, because we were tired of people just callingos to the
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  edgeheads even backstage. You know, people don't even know our names, the
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  two Edge guys. Yeah, basically yeah, I think that was like pretty
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  much, you know, the moment that sealed the deal. But so yeah,
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  this is like, like Brian said, this is the gear we're the
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  most in theory. But if you look inside the crotch, if you look
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  at the side logos, they're all in blue. It should be purple.
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  I wore purple, and I feel like they just matched me to Brian,
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  which really devastated me. Really pissed me off. And like this particular figure.
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  Man, I bought hundreds of these cases. I still have some really
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  have none, and I've handed them out to everybody and friends and family,
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  and I was just so proud to be, you know, an action figure.
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  This is the hand painted prototype where it has the correct purple. Man,
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  it was just crazy. So like the sides, the sides they made
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  blue, and I remember I said, hey, they got to be all
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  purple, but instead they made it all blue. Man. So I have,
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  you know, just the handpainted prototype. It's all in pieces, right,
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  so I have it all. I should, like, you know,
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  glue it all together. I have mine too, and like definitely there's like
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  bigger like my Kickpad logos are way bigger and stuff, and it's definitely different
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  on my hand painted one. Yeah, my logos are where a bigger on
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  I'll show you right now. Can you can you tell? The logos are
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  way bigger on the Yeah, same thing, hand painted prototype, so hey
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  listen, really cool to get it again. Another one that if you're trying
• 22:15
  to get Mint on card, now, damn near impossible to get mint because
• 22:18
  that w like pops up a little bit. There's a lot of things that
• 22:22
  kind of hang off the carting that just get nicked. Yeah, and of
• 22:26
  course it comes to my signature exploding briefcase and uh that ladder that Broski was
• 22:30
  so well, it's foreshadowing that I would win the ladder match of Wrestle May
• 22:33
  thirty two. Yeah, so I like it. Great, great window for
• 22:40
  SIGs. But this was this was a Sharpie era. I know, pin
• 22:42
  Pen man, I've signed so few of these in paint pen to be honest
• 22:47
  with you, because I've fried so many and Sharpie over the years. This
• 22:48
  is some point where I bought I think rings Head had a sale and I
• 22:52
  went fucking nuts. And actually, I mean if you look at the box
• 22:55
  there, that's the hand painted protos doing those poses and moves and stuff.
• 23:00
  Oh you know what, I'm having a memory. You could see it.
• 23:03
  My original one when they sent it to us, had like the little boots
• 23:07
  that like Matt wears with no laces, like stinger style boots, not kickpads.
• 23:11
  And I was like, no, no, please fix that. I
• 23:12
  know you have a kickpad, Mole, do you use it for punk all
• 23:15
  the time? Like it's got to be kickpads? And they switch it and
• 23:18
  I definitely have samples with the wrong boots and things like that. That Jackson
• 23:22
  was cool enough to hook us up with two things. Oh yeah, you
• 23:26
  wore boots under your kickpads at this point. No, I wore. I
• 23:33
  just told them. And when I wore like boxing shoes that I wear now.
• 23:36
  Actually the same thing. When did you switch to boots? Because when
• 23:38
  I first met you were like strictly boots. Cause at some point I was
• 23:42
  like, I mean, I'm six to one, but I'm not the tallest
• 23:45
  guy in the world, so I'll take whatever i can get to kind of
• 23:48
  Oh the old lift skis. Yeah, But then I went to Tinae wrestling
• 23:51
  at twenty twenty one. Jesus, I'm like bronze Stroman here, I don't
• 23:53
  need these boots. Yeah, all right. And then the other thing is
• 23:57
  and this is no offense, it's just more about the Jacks thing that the
• 24:02
  game to play is every vintage toy store in America has a box of Ruth's
• 24:07
  Aggression loose figures just beaten there. You can look through right play a game
• 24:11
  with yourself anywhere in America. Try to find a Zach and Brian because there's
• 24:15
  usually one of them in there guarantee there's a Festus in there, because there's
• 24:18
  always at every vintage toy store in America. Super loose. Yes, I
• 24:26
  hate know what I hated on Ruth's figures, Like something can break and they
• 24:29
  rattle. Yes, And sometimes it's like that when you open it fresh from
• 24:33
  the I can't keep that even though like it's posed on my shelf, not
• 24:37
  making a noise, just my OCD in the thought of that that it has
• 24:41
  the rattle and I'm like, nah, something's broken there. We gotta get
• 24:44
  I don't have a single rattle or click click click on any of my figures.
• 24:47
  I mean, yeah, right, I say, Mark, when ruth
• 24:48
  Disgressive Figures were a thing, you were like, you got a real job.
• 24:52
  You were like, yeah, two degrees, yeah, all right,
• 24:57
  all right. Next up, cool concept micro aggression. Love of this Zach
• 25:04
  Ryder, Kurt Hawkins, Matt Freakin' Hardy again, pretty much the same gear
• 25:11
  as our Deluxe aggressions. Mine's inaccurately in the blue, but this is you
• 25:18
  can't see it on this thing, but it's my favorite. Like head skull,
• 25:21
  it's like the screaming. I guess I never kind of realized that they
• 25:26
  do have different skins. Huh yeah, I love the concept of these.
• 25:30
  I love the concept fun for play. These became a thing like right before
• 25:33
  we became WW superstars. Obviously, the deco heads aren't what they should be.
• 25:37
  I mean, I have no dpats for some reason. I actually think
• 25:41
  mine has the Rider on the butt, has the logos and the crash stuff.
• 25:47
  They have a bunch and then they don't. You know, it doesn't
• 25:48
  make all that much sense, but I thought it was cool because these are
• 25:52
  so accessible. They're everywhere to every Walmart, Toys r us, you know,
• 25:56
  and it made you feel like, like really a w B super starting,
• 26:00
  you know, see these in the store and stuff, you know,
• 26:03
  and we come with Matt Hardy. How cool is that? Pretty damn cool
• 26:06
  man? And uh figures. I think if I was a kid, I
• 26:11
  would collect like crazy and like take on affordable, take to the beach or
• 26:15
  something, and not worried about like if they were getting all messed up or
• 26:18
  lost. And next up we have the Adrenaline two packs. Finally, Man
• 26:26
  Talks and Rider two pack. Look at that one half of the youngest WW
• 26:36
  tag team champions in history. I think our friend Nicholas kind of fudged that
• 26:41
  trivia fact up for us a little bit, but I still think that kind
• 26:42
  of stands true because this is a little you know, so this is post
• 26:48
  edgeheads. You guys win the belts on that uhama, we are we are
• 26:53
  edgeheads when we win the titles. But these this outfit depicts post edgeheads.
• 27:00
  So what do you think we did in this in this gear? Probably I
• 27:03
  literally did one fucking match in this white fit and swaggle. It's like it's
• 27:08
  like a fitting swaggle or a college squash, something not cool, something not
• 27:14
  then like Edgehed was breaking up and you being woo woo guy. I mean,
• 27:19
  there's not a lot of action. How long is that? It's months.
• 27:23
  It's it's like the fall of eight until the spring of nine. Like
• 27:29
  so it's it's it's like good amount. So really, you know, we
• 27:33
  had this conversation with with with Vince McMahon and he told us that he was
• 27:37
  going to split us up, but he was going to send us to Stanford
• 27:40
  and we were gonna have like individual meetings with the writing team to come up
• 27:44
  with new gimmicks. That never happened. So what happened was they just kept
• 27:48
  bringing us randomly to TVs as a team. We first off, we drove
• 27:52
  to Stanford that they like blew off the meeting and we just went home right
• 27:55
  now. We filmed our own thing and drove on our own. This was
• 27:57
  not the meeting, that was it. I remember you film Rono's office that
• 28:02
  like, yeah, week was accomplished. No, we filmed the thing with
• 28:03
  my cousin John. Yeah, that videos on YouTube. We can put it
• 28:07
  in the description. We've put it up right, Yeah. And then we
• 28:10
  pitched it ourselves. This was not the meeting we were supposed to have,
• 28:14
  and yes we were blown off. Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm sort
• 28:15
  of right. But we just keep getting brought to TVs in these meaningless matches
• 28:22
  against Finley and Swaggle against It was always like, oh, the units aren't
• 28:26
  doing anything, and then they come out of the meeting like, oh,
• 28:29
  actually you're putting over. So we've wrestled Jeff Hardy at Triple A. Oh
• 28:32
  my god, you know what I'm saying that that might be this is this
• 28:34
  match? Well that's pretty memorable. No, it's not memorable at all.
• 28:38
  I mean it's cool and wrestled too. You're like guys, and in that
• 28:41
  particular show, we it was all been in New York. I never forget,
• 28:45
  and we were not booked, and we drove from Long Island to be
• 28:48
  proactive, and then we got added to the show to wrestle Jeff and Triple
• 28:51
  H. So I'm not sure if that's the many pedigrees there. Man,
• 28:55
  that's first of many ped That's why you got a figure. To remember that.
• 28:59
  I actually got two figures in this adrenaline because there is a variant process.
• 29:04
  Well, there's a couple of things to be said about this two pac
• 29:07
  one. I for sure suggested it, like Jeremy like, hey, I
• 29:11
  saw that you have that sweatshirt mold for like most people are like, why
• 29:17
  would you want your ring? I just wanted it to be more toyatic and
• 29:18
  different, and I knew they had this mold from the Rocky line that was
• 29:22
  very popular at the time from Jack's I'm like, there's a Rocky and a
• 29:26
  full sweatsuit thing. And I'm like, and it's the same exact compatible molds
• 29:30
  as Ruth's a question w B figures And I said, hey, can we
• 29:33
  use that and make it my hoodie that I wear to the ring? Because
• 29:36
  I just thought it would be so cool. It's pretty neat, which I
• 29:38
  think to this day, my mom wears this hoodie to the grocery store like
• 29:41
  a psychopath. And that's why that's why I picked that. I also,
• 29:47
  I do want to point this out, guys, I have the hand painted
• 29:49
  prototype of this as well. Wow, So I mean they really Jack's really
• 29:55
  hooked us up on this. This Adrenaline set kind of of coincides with the
• 30:03
  boom death blow of Jack's at WW who Killed Jacks? We're gonna have to
• 30:08
  pitch that one device who Killed Jacks? Be because uh, that last year,
• 30:14
  I think they knew the license was up, and I don't know if
• 30:15
  there was already an agreement with Mattela or whatever, and Jack's like basically gave
• 30:19
  up, and I don't think they wanted to put any more money into the
• 30:23
  line. So this set was released, and I guess there's a couple of
• 30:27
  these like this, But then they just start cost cutting all figures across the
• 30:30
  board. But the set's released the way it's supposed to be. If you
• 30:33
  look closer at these pictures, like look at my Hawkins on my chest.
• 30:37
  One has the blue deco hit, the next one doesn't. Right, they
• 30:41
  even cost cut the accessory because it probably costs a lot more to make,
• 30:45
  you know, a plated title belt where they made it a microphone. Also,
• 30:51
  the my logo is dumbed down as well, Like there's these black studs
• 30:56
  that are removed from the purple on my logo. Yeah, there's there's actually
• 31:00
  all blue from my figure is removed. Wow, for sure, And I
• 31:07
  supposed to this. I don't even display that cost cut when I have one,
• 31:11
  like you know, I have it min on car and I have it
• 31:12
  bagged, but I don't display it because it's just like like I said,
• 31:15
  I only display my men on card figures, and I don't display the I
• 31:19
  mean, this is my photo right here, I have one. I don't
• 31:23
  have any of these loose, to be honest, so I need to get
• 31:26
  some of these loose at least. But you know what, I do have
• 31:29
  it loose, but it's with my Ruthless Aggression figures. I need to get
• 31:32
  it to add to my Matt Bene figures. Right. It's hard being a
• 31:36
  wrestler who clicks wrestling figures because you have to get so many versions of yourself.
• 31:38
  The men on card rubber, display the men on card run for like
• 31:41
  just in case, like your house burns down and you just grab that bin,
• 31:45
  you know, the loose for display, the loose for like your rules's
• 31:48
  aggression collection and photography. Say like, I can't even tell you. I
• 31:52
  mean, like, if you see this on the shelves I bought it,
• 31:56
  I would never look myself, never leave myself's hanging out. I have none
• 32:00
  to show for. They're all gone giving away whatever, you know. So
• 32:04
  I tell people they get figures, man, you gotta stock up. I
• 32:07
  see those ringside sales, man, I send those to the creative bokuy so
• 32:09
  fast, Johnny Silver and those people. I'm like, you guys don't understand,
• 32:12
  like one day you'll be dying to find this figure. It's gonna be
• 32:15
  eighty dollars in eBay. Yeah you can get it for five bucks right now,
• 32:17
  Like just now. Too much can never be enough, Man's I can't.
• 32:23
  That's exactly something that I that I took from you guys. And even
• 32:29
  early on with the Bendi's, you know, I'm thinking I got to get
• 32:30
  rid of these red, white and blue ones or that first one that you
• 32:36
  made, and now I literally only have three and I'm like, ah shit,
• 32:39
  yeah, yeah it's tough, man, But yeah, so Johnny Silver
• 32:44
  should be buying every single one, and I don't think he is. I
• 32:45
  bet you he has two in his house. Want to think about it?
• 32:49
  Probably open too, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he gave one
• 32:52
  to his nephew. Or to think about it all right. Next up,
• 32:57
  we have another Mike aggression, Zach Ryder, Kurt Hawker, then Carlito again
• 33:04
  kind of a ruse in the face of people who don't want to be cool.
• 33:07
  Oh my god, you had that. You had that line. I
• 33:12
  saw it on Instagram. I stole it. This is a straight re releaser,
• 33:16
  straight still cool, and I mean, if we're being full major pod
• 33:22
  style transparent about this, Jack's money way better than Metel money. So,
• 33:27
  like way, anytime you get something like this, it's like ooh baby,
• 33:30
  Like it was like, oh yeah, and that's that. Like obviously there's
• 33:34
  the you know, uh, professional aspect of it. We're like, wow,
• 33:37
  I'm an actual figure. Wow they released me again. That's cool.
• 33:39
  But then the financial aspect of Jack's was much more lucrative than what guy's been
• 33:45
  getting paid from it to what are we talking Are we talking with ten thousand,
• 33:46
  We're talking one thousand? Are we talking twenty five thousand. I'm trying
• 33:52
  to remember. I feel like every time we got a figure it was like
• 33:57
  six or seven grand I would say more than that more. Yeah, that's
• 34:01
  great. Yeah, yeah, maybe with all the you know, the first
• 34:07
  check is always big, and it's quarterly, so it kind of dwindles.
• 34:10
  Maybe all in ten eleven. Those those micro guys, how do they compare
• 34:15
  to that? Uh, to the to the attitude era ones that we talk
• 34:19
  about all the time. They're way smaller, even smaller. They're smaller,
• 34:22
  right, look in mind. Yeah, here's a little sizing. I don't
• 34:27
  want to say. I don't want to say an in smaller. They're smaller,
• 34:29
  you know what, I'm talking about the mini ches like, yeah,
• 34:31
  this is an inch and a half. He's talking about the ones that come
• 34:35
  in the ring. I'm talking about they're smaller. I would they're not,
• 34:37
  you know, way smaller though, Yeah, they're smaller, they're smaller.
• 34:44
  Well, next step is a figure that I'm I kind of don't want to
• 34:45
  talk about right now because I don't have one. I think you were,
• 34:49
  so I have a theory of that too. I think you were next.
• 34:52
  That probably was, or I don't have that's who cares? Yeah, I
• 34:54
  think you were slated to be in it. These these ones are going to
• 34:57
  need some explaining. This is probably best figure of all time, most accurate,
• 35:01
  best echo. Hits body is just exact. I would say it would
• 35:09
  have been great for me. Maybe not Jack enough, not Jack, not
• 35:12
  Tanner jacking up to be Broski. So they made it me all right.
• 35:16
  These were Titan Tron bodies reused and discounted. You can see like they're three
• 35:23
  for thirteen ninety eight. I believe that says right available at writ aids and
• 35:30
  this is series fourteen also same year deathbed Jack's Jack's ww eras ending. I
• 35:39
  remember this came out when I was I was already in FCW when this came
• 35:44
  out, damn, and they were like, I mean they were it was
• 35:47
  cool and it was not cool, but these were in every Think about how
• 35:50
  many rite aids there are, right, and people pop in there. There's
• 35:53
  a very small Toyle, But this is one of the things you see every
• 35:55
  time, Like people just send me pictures of it all the time, Like,
• 36:00
  I mean, it was everywhere. I would always scoop them up,
• 36:02
  same thing. I had so many of these. Now this has actually become
• 36:05
  one of my more rare figures because it's like it was so unsought after that
• 36:09
  people don't have it, you know. So if you're trying to be a
• 36:13
  Brian Myers or Kurt Hawkins complete isst this is actually pretty tough to come by.
• 36:16
  And then, like I said, I think there's maybe this is series
• 36:20
  fourteen, then there's like fifteen. I would to say Brosky was slotted to
• 36:22
  be in it, but the whole thing just kind of dried up and died.
• 36:27
  Well, never know, it's pretty cool to say I have a Titan
• 36:29
  drawn though, No, and that is cool. That is totally cool.
• 36:32
  I wish I did. Now you have one min on card as well?
• 36:36
  Oh of course, yeah, have min on card and I might have a
• 36:38
  hand paid the proto that actually has a deco hit on it. Oh that's
• 36:44
  cool. Yeah, because I like to see that these were always pretty bad,
• 36:49
  but at the end they got really bad. They weren't always like this
• 36:52
  is literally me in blue boots and blue underwear, like there's not a thing
• 36:55
  on this, like crazy, they're almost bootleg figures. Yeah, they almost
• 37:00
  wouldn't even think they were real, right, but they were real. They
• 37:04
  were real. Well, they knew that you were a big, right,
• 37:06
  aid guy, Brian. That's why. Honestly, when I lived in Queen's
• 37:08
  there was a rider right there. I mean, so I shopped every day.
• 37:12
  Did you ever see it in that right aid? Of course? And
• 37:14
  then, like I said, I mean the same thing as anytime I see
• 37:17
  myself in the pigs, I buy it. You gotta can't leave yourself on
• 37:22
  that bag. Never enough. So the final release this is where from Jack.
• 37:25
  This one hurts. This one hurts a lot, guys. No,
• 37:30
  no, no, no, there's one more micro Oh oh, I thought
• 37:32
  we were talking about the least egg we got prepared? What up, dude?
• 37:36
  I mean, look at this, this is Zach. You know what.
• 37:38
  I have a new goal. I want someone to bring this to me
• 37:42
  into a signing and I'm going to write, what up, dude on this
• 37:44
  and sign it Zach Ryder Kurt Hawkins. That's fantasy gear for you, Brosky.
• 37:49
  No, this is real gear for me, and for once they fucking
• 37:52
  matched you. I think yours is kind of fantasy. I think I always
• 37:55
  thought mine was supposed to be tied up this. I won the tech titles
• 38:00
  and but this is not that either. But so the only thing that's fantasy
• 38:02
  about mine is that you know, if you spread my crotch open, you
• 38:07
  see that it's blue, can even tell it should be purple inside. But
• 38:09
  this teal aqua is real gear. Okay, Now I remember that gear,
• 38:14
  okay, and I feel like yours is fantasy to match minus fantasy. It's
• 38:16
  two gear. It's a mishmash. Now I'm looking at it because it's the
• 38:20
  kickers from my older gear and then the blue tights from when I went we
• 38:23
  won the tech titles, so didn't wear this gear many times at all,
• 38:28
  So it's meaningless gear. But it's here, brosk that gear is for sure
• 38:30
  like a colleague, like a two one kill job. Yeah, yeah,
• 38:34
  it's totally meaningless gear. But we got a three pack with the fucking Undertake.
• 38:40
  Yeah how cool is that? Right? Like what I mean, and
• 38:44
  a trash can and that signature trash can. But I feel like if our
• 38:47
  WWE careers ended in two thousand and nine, we could walk away and be
• 38:52
  like, well, we made it to this point where somebody justified that we
• 38:54
  could come in a three pack with the goddamn Undertaker, Like that's what ud
• 38:59
  pretty freaking cool. Yeah, the hits keep coming in that regard. It's
• 39:02
  just weird to me that, you know, we had a pretty decent run
• 39:07
  as the Edge Heads as Hawkins a rider with Edge, but the two gears
• 39:12
  they chose for me, you know in these last two years are gears that
• 39:15
  I wore once or twice post Edge hits. And I don't want to say
• 39:19
  we're cheating, but we're pretty in with like Jeremy and Jack's and rings are
• 39:23
  collectibles. Yeah, definitely. You know had a a little helping hand for
• 39:28
  sure, which is much appreciated. This next one is gonna hurt un released
• 39:34
  Guys unreleased. It was supposed to be a kmart two pack with the title
• 39:39
  Zach Ryder Kurt Hawkins in the gear we won the titles in Great American Bash.
• 39:45
  God. Yeah, that's why I mean it hurts on many levels.
• 39:49
  That's the number one I would say, right yea, because it's depicting us
• 39:52
  winning the belts in the gear. We won the belts with the belt,
• 39:54
  which is a you know, a role play kid style SmackDown tact team CHAMPI
• 40:00
  Chip right, like if you're watching right now the Mis and Morrison, it
• 40:02
  would have been just like that would have been so fun, Like now at
• 40:07
  conventions and souf such such an honor. I'm fortunate because the Jacks, I
• 40:12
  have three versions of mine same, I have all these pro this is a
• 40:15
  finished sample, like playable, real deal version of it. Probably one of
• 40:21
  my favorite things I own. What's what's on? What's on your wristband?
• 40:25
  The stars that I was it just timing that canceled it? Or yeah,
• 40:30
  it's the end of the Jacks everything like So there's those were Kmart exclusive two
• 40:35
  packs and actually so and there's just just bad timing because it definitely got that
• 40:40
  far along that we got samples, like Mark check this out. So I
• 40:45
  have the hand painted prototype right here, which is great. You probably can't
• 40:47
  even tell, like look how it's fantastic is painted, and then I have
• 40:52
  two samples. But what I don't like, you know, it comes with
• 40:54
  knee pads and elbow pads. I didn't wear knee pads over the tights like
• 40:58
  this right, you know. So I took off the knee pads and the
• 41:01
  other ones that added a tag teams out. So this is the one I
• 41:04
  have on display. It's a mashup of a fantasy figure. But how perfect
• 41:07
  is that? But that's what you would have done when you got that figure,
• 41:10
  you would have immediately taken those, taken those goddamnee pads off. But
• 41:14
  yeah, so I'm fortunate that I have three versions of it. And then
• 41:16
  I had you sold one of yours, didn't you, Carnes under a bitch.
• 41:21
  I sold my ext one on I think early what days for a lot
• 41:23
  of money, and it had it had very odd It had the rocky molded
• 41:31
  like big chunky molded wrist tate white ristate, which is not accurate or anything
• 41:36
  at all from that time period. So I don't know how it ended up
• 41:37
  with that. But other than that, it was all, you know,
• 41:42
  the exact same you wore Elope and black Alba perfect, yeah, from from
• 41:46
  this era to me, And that's crazy, it's crazy. You don't wear
• 41:50
  elbow pads now, right, No, you know, one day Fandango said
• 41:52
  to me, like, you look way more jacked without elbow pats blocking the
• 41:57
  cuts of your biceps and stuff. Yeah, warn them since I feel like
• 42:00
  elbow pads really fell off, right, who wears elbow pats? I wear
• 42:05
  elbow pets actually wears you don't think, Yeah, which is crazy because you're
• 42:08
  so vain, But like I was not wearing because I think it makes my
• 42:10
  arms look less jacked. So like I think it makes my arms look bigger,
• 42:14
  so I wear them. I feel like people don't wear elbow pads now
• 42:17
  unless they have an elbow problem or something. If I have a set in
• 42:22
  my gearbag at all times in case I get banged up. But it's been
• 42:24
  years, so yeah, decent little run with this Jacks run some of my
• 42:30
  favorite figures. Obviously a lot of sentimental value and connection to these figures,
• 42:35
  to this toy line because like we said, we were playing with Jacks and
• 42:38
  now we have Jacks, and then we're on the roster when Jacks dies,
• 42:43
  right, So yeah, I mean, like I said, it's a bucket
• 42:45
  list dream thing to come true, you know, especially for two guys who
• 42:49
  are obsessed with wrestling figures and really are the crazy part. And I'm just
• 42:52
  kind of having this moment right now. It's just a year. That's a
• 42:54
  year right from like a year of product, you know what I mean,
• 43:00
  right right, it's kind of great. Yeah, I guess it's a hot
• 43:02
  year of the edge all of wit. It starts we got our first thing
• 43:07
  I can hand and it ends like fall you know, nine wild times.
• 43:13
  So now you've do. You guys have talked about this a lot. Devastated.
• 43:16
  Jacks is done, Mattel. Let me just say this. I do
• 43:21
  think I got screwed out of a one legged woo zach Ryder Jack's I think
• 43:29
  they could have got me because you were doing Mayo nine, but no one
• 43:32
  else TJ gets doesn't TJ get one. Yeah, but he debut is like
• 43:40
  early nine. He's pretty early, I know, but he's like he's early
• 43:45
  and then uh, that's quarter two. Pal. I'm trying to think like
• 43:50
  the latest one is a Christian, right, but he's January nine or something
• 43:53
  like that. Right, they could have squeezed me in. It would have
• 43:57
  no that go, it would be it would almost would have been pointless.
• 44:00
  Well, we won't say this before we get into Mattel. We heard do
• 44:05
  the grape vine. We have no proof of this that we were supposed to
• 44:07
  be in the first set of two packs, which obviously you know they planned
• 44:12
  those so far in advance. Yeah, and we quickly become tag team champions
• 44:16
  to lose in a collide, so that gets scrapped. But I wonder if
• 44:21
  it got far at all. It's weird that whole first like year or the
• 44:25
  first Mattel product that dropped like depicts two thousand and eight WW, but it
• 44:30
  dropped in twenty ten, you know what I mean, like because they were
• 44:32
  just getting ready to get ready because they dropped it on that By those metrics,
• 44:38
  we are stars and could have been in it right, and we've always
• 44:43
  heard that we were bumped, bump bumped until they just like disappeared from the
• 44:45
  lineup. Yeah, So, like I was saying, you guys devastated,
• 44:52
  they're getting rid of jacks whatever, Broski, you've talked about this before.
• 44:54
  This is when you sell everything. You sell all your jacks. I sell
• 44:57
  it all, Bro, I sell everything besides l Jan, we wouldn't get
• 45:02
  rid of our stuff that Classic Superstars done. Ruth's aggression figures I'm like heartbroken,
• 45:07
  devastated, but I don't we else realized I had everything every release ever,
• 45:15
  like Bro, I probably had twenty something mister Kennedy's you know what I
• 45:20
  mean, Like I got I bought everything and yeah, yeah, you know
• 45:25
  what's what's his name helped you guys, Right, Danny Demonto did a consignment
• 45:30
  for us. That's sure. It was like his job. Okay, So
• 45:35
  now and by the way, I've gone back and bought re bought all the
• 45:37
  classic superstars years ago when we we fill a trunk with aggression figures after going
• 45:45
  to the basement of wrestling. I don't have everybody, but I've won if
• 45:49
  one of every character and one of every like character change, but I don't
• 45:52
  have every mister Kennedy, you know. Yeah, that was the completest,
• 45:55
  like a psychopathic. It made no sense what I was doing. Yeah,
• 45:59
  insane. Yeah you brought you got like an apartment yourself on Long Island.
• 46:04
  Now do you have your your figures up or no? In my living room?
• 46:09
  Are very proud of it. Yeah, they had a nice little shelf
• 46:13
  and they're up. And then what about you, Brian? I had that
• 46:15
  ring for sure that I referenced, like literally, if there was like a
• 46:20
  draft or someone changed shows, I'd mix them and they were just all posed.
• 46:22
  And yeah, but after you sold it, after you seld it,
• 46:25
  oh you done what. I had my first apartment in Queen's me and Papa
• 46:30
  Barrett. There was like a really big basement where we like hung out and
• 46:34
  partied and watch wrestling or whatever, watch sports, And there was like a
• 46:37
  shelf that kind of wrapped around high up and I had men on card figures
• 46:43
  autographed from all my friends and stuff. Most of those have transferred to my
• 46:47
  garage wall now made out to me and stuff. You know, yeah,
• 46:52
  a good old you know Jesse and Festus tu Pac that's right, signed me
• 46:55
  the best wishes, you know, Zach right, that's right. Okay.
• 47:00
  So then is it is it a big long long period or they're right into
• 47:05
  Mattel. Well, there's nothing to be excited about about Jacks figures for like
• 47:10
  a good you know what for forced four to six months at the end there,
• 47:14
  because they're because you get like naked Marc Henry garbage, like literally like
• 47:17
  you said, Brosie said, like they didn't even seem like a real product,
• 47:21
  Like they seem like bootleg toys. But then New Year's Day twenty ten
• 47:27
  people went out and we're finding Mattel product in uh, like targets and stuff.
• 47:31
  I remember it was like this huge thing and then what I was trying
• 47:36
  to avoid it and then I finally saw like Elite's Elite Series one at Target.
• 47:40
  I'm like, God, damn, these are unbelievable. These might be
• 47:45
  the best rest of figures I've ever seen. Like I can't quit, and
• 47:47
  that's how it all got started for me, and I'm out and I'm like,
• 47:51
  at this point, I get so mad, like they're not making me,
• 47:53
  especially when I'm like, you know, I wanted Jacks to make Woo
• 47:57
  Woo Rider. Now Mattel's not even making me. I'm I'm like furious,
• 48:00
  I'm holding out. And then eventually they do make me, but I don't
• 48:02
  get back into collecting Mattel's until like twenty sixteen. It's like six years right
• 48:08
  before the Pop Long Grudge, Brusky Hell, then Long Grudge. I gotta
• 48:14
  say, now I'm thinking about it. You got so screwed in timing wise,
• 48:17
  because if Jackson was rocking and rolling like in that ECW run, you
• 48:22
  would have had a lot of problems, a lot. I got screwed.
• 48:24
  Yeah, timing, like jack screwed Rider. There was just there was nobody
• 48:29
  getting anything, so there's no like nothing to be had. But you,
• 48:31
  oh my god, yeah, you would have like every on that show,
• 48:34
  you would have I would have had a fucking maximum aggression. Yeah, maybe
• 48:38
  Jesus, I would have had a Vinyl aggression. In that time, you're
• 48:43
  collecting pops and ship right stops Pops and start pops. No really, no,
• 48:50
  what are you collecting like Star Wars anything at this time? Yeah?
• 48:53
  Wait are we talking twenty ten? Yeah? Yeah, like after you sell
• 48:57
  all your shit done? There's nothing fuck toys? Wow, I mean you
• 49:01
  have I guess yeah, but I'm not collecting ship. The first thing I
• 49:08
  start collecting is probably around twenty ten. Actually it's the Mattel Ghostbusters. I
• 49:14
  saw collecting something. There's something yeah, but no wrestling huh, hard times
• 49:19
  baby. All right, you guys want to go to some Mattel Yeah,
• 49:22
  move on, but first, uh you know? Ay, the Mattel segment
• 49:28
  today on this podcast brought to you by our good friends Major Bendys. They
• 49:30
  got your my ass, you have yours? I saw because I got ricked
• 49:36
  playing who He's wrong? Here to try and here not gentlemen. Oo.
• 49:40
  Yeah, and Brian Miles and Matrigona they're so real. Can you tell the
• 49:46
  difference? Rosica s Big Rubber Guys. They're for real eat sold separately on
• 49:57
  Major Bendies dot com, Big Rubber Drop collect them all. It's funny,
• 50:01
  you know we're talking about the Zach and Kurtz. Now we have our own
• 50:06
  Major Bennies. Is no Zach and Kurt. There's a lot of Matt and
• 50:08
  Bryan's. I get a lot of other characters, a lot of other superstars
• 50:12
  Majorbendi's dot com, and who knows, maybe you'll get some inspired Zach and
• 50:19
  kurtz. That would be pretty cool. I was actually just thinking that there
• 50:22
  Kurt Hawkins Zach Ryder figures could fit in big rubberd eyes maybe who knows who?
• 50:28
  You never know, we'd fit right in with those nineteen eighty five anyway,
• 50:32
  I'm not that old yet. So, like we said, the license
• 50:37
  shifts to Matzel. I'm all out. I'm pissed, I'm furious. I'll
• 50:42
  never forget what happened. Heath Slater Okay, I love Heath Okay, but
• 50:47
  fuck it. He Slater gets a figure announced, and I tweet so mad
• 50:52
  at Bill mckina. He's Slater as a figure, not me. It's a
• 50:54
  two pack with Christian Right and Bill mckina. I don't know if he d
• 51:00
  me or email me or something. What a brat. He sent me a
• 51:04
  picture of my first Basic, but it was it was a mishmash. It
• 51:07
  was like, we'll talk about it, we'll show, we can show right
• 51:10
  now, my first ever Basic my first ever figure right here, because the
• 51:15
  figure he shows me has a purple headband, so they had my elite head
• 51:21
  on the basic body. I think it was just a fuck up in the
• 51:23
  factory, you know. But that's the first thing he sends me, and
• 51:25
  I start flipping out. Oh what not? Wouldn't you play actual release?
• 51:30
  No? No, just like a loose figure. Wouldn't you flip out?
• 51:32
  The headband didn't match? I guess. Yeah, all right, so timeline
• 51:37
  here, so time out, you're looking. We're looking right now at this
• 51:40
  series ten, which is which is the Basic ten series of basics. Guys,
• 51:44
  I can give you a perfect timeline of this with my psycho memory.
• 51:49
  Royal Rumble twenty eleven is in Boston at the time I'm with SmackDown. I
• 51:53
  have a day off in between. Here is what roll Rumble twenty eleven Boston?
• 52:00
  Yeah, what year is that? Twenty eleven? What are we missing?
• 52:04
  Holy shit? I kept thinking you're saying Royal Rumble eleven. Royal Rubble
• 52:09
  twenty eleven is in Boston. SmackDown superstars have a day off in between,
• 52:15
  old school schedule style, like you said before. This line came out January
• 52:22
  first, twenty ten twenty ten. Okay, so we're talking a year full
• 52:27
  year. Yep, there are ten products or ten ten lines. I my
• 52:31
  good friend Dylan Postel was in that rumble. I did the dark Match.
• 52:36
  We drove all night back. He blew up immensely. You can watch it
• 52:38
  on Peacock, I'm sure. And it was like bedridden and stayed with me
• 52:43
  in Queens and I said, let's at least not lose the entire day.
• 52:45
  Let's go to Ring Psychoecticals and see what they got or what's going on whatever.
• 52:49
  And they had just gotten the sample case. And I remember I sent
• 52:52
  the photo to Matt He went, what I couldn't believe it, like I
• 52:55
  saw before anybody really, so pretty much Mattel screwed me. They I don't
• 53:00
  even have a one legged tight basic. My first one leggo. My first
• 53:05
  one legged tight ends up being an elite, which is fine. So at
• 53:07
  the same time, they come up pretty quickly and elite comes after this.
• 53:10
  But my first figure is in trunks, when Trunks comes after the one legged
• 53:15
  tights, right, you know what I'm saying. So this is a cool
• 53:19
  figure right now. Now if you look, you can't really tell, like
• 53:22
  if you zoom in like this one. I was kind of growing my hair
• 53:24
  out a little bit. You can see like the longer hair, see that
• 53:29
  back there. Yeah, I never realize that, I guess. So it's
• 53:31
  like, yeah, not take care spiker, it's take care slickers. You
• 53:35
  pretend tough guy. Mad face looks great. I am, I'm a I
• 53:38
  am Matt still does that face headband molded on the w w w y K
• 53:45
  I trunks pretty generic gear, but I did wear this is This is the
• 53:47
  gear that's featured on like my first ever basic T shirt, right, so
• 53:52
  it's it's pretty cool. One thing that that bugged me a bit is that
• 53:55
  if you look at the fists here, like the can you see that the
• 54:00
  tape does not connect to the wrist. It's just like a tape fist.
• 54:04
  Yeah, it was like so inaccurate that I just started doing it that way
• 54:07
  to make the figure accurate. That's funny, you know what I'm saying.
• 54:10
  Once you saw that real woo woo woo on the headband too, it's a
• 54:15
  real woo woo woo on the headband, did you ever wear that exact thing
• 54:17
  after it came out? Just to like I might have. I might have
• 54:22
  but I was very very proud of this figure, super pumped to get it.
• 54:25
  Fuck ten series it took. Now that prime makes it. You know,
• 54:30
  it seem like it was only a year. It doesn't seem like the
• 54:32
  longest amount of time, but for me, it felt like fucking eternity.
• 54:36
  Yeah, well, yeah, I guess, and I know what you're saying.
• 54:38
  But when you really think about it, it's like twenty ten. That's
• 54:42
  ECW, right, Like you take off with the three Dies in early twenty
• 54:47
  ten, and this comes out. I in my first episode of z tru
• 54:52
  Long Island Story, which is that in February twenty eleven, I use either
• 54:55
  this figure or the Elite. So it's like it comes out joh, they
• 55:00
  come out just as I'm starting the YouTube show. So this isn't like over
• 55:04
  zach Ryder. This is like the Heart and Soul superhero ECW. Now like
• 55:07
  Jabronian R, Like this is JABRONI on raw zach Ryder got it right,
• 55:13
  where like the Elite we're about to talk about is like the star of ECW
• 55:16
  zach Ryder. So it's a weird timing. Okay, it is weird,
• 55:21
  and it's weird that that came first and I remember that very vividly that that
• 55:22
  came first. Yeah, for sure, so I listen. I still to
• 55:25
  this day love this figure. I love We'll talk about later. I personally
• 55:30
  love the headband molded on because later they don't mold on the headbands and he
• 55:36
  feels naked. It feels naked to me, even though I didn't really wrestle.
• 55:40
  I later wrestle with headben on bro. In the beginning, I did,
• 55:45
  and then I stopped. But I like it. I like this figure
• 55:49
  a lot, and I like that it depicts that that kind of like,
• 55:52
  you know, I'm growing out the hair look okay right there, So I
• 55:55
  like it. So then the Elite, the Elite. This is one of,
• 56:01
  if not my favorite figures. Great figure Elite Series nine Zach Ryder.
• 56:08
  It's still it's the same long hair, yep, has the woo headband.
• 56:14
  The uh this is the logo that I kind of stole from Edge that Brian
• 56:19
  ended up kind of using too. Where's just the head you know in your
• 56:23
  mouth? No, it's just my my lips on like it's it's the paint
• 56:30
  is weird on thee so it doesn't have my right boots, which really pisses
• 56:37
  me. Off, but they painted them. They painted them correctly. At
• 56:38
  least I don't have fucking straps. The Soft Goods is like really unique on
• 56:46
  that man. Yes, it has the you know sleeves, the mess shirt.
• 56:52
  The one thing that does bug me besides the plane black sunglasses is that
• 56:57
  you know, if you see this the z R my crotch, it's not
• 57:00
  centered. It should be centered. But on the studio shot that Bill looks
• 57:06
  at because of the one legged tights, it like pulls a little bit,
• 57:09
  you know, so the z R is kind of shifted, and you know
• 57:14
  Bill depicted that. And I remember the first time I really had some heat
• 57:19
  with Bill mckina. It's because MIS told Bill that I didn't like the figure
• 57:22
  and I had to like say, no, it's not I don't like it,
• 57:25
  I like he said the first time. But I love this week.
• 57:30
  I love signing it. This is before they started adding all the things to
• 57:35
  secure the accessories and package, so it's got It's very very hard nowadays to
• 57:39
  find the sunglasses on the figure. Oh wow, why the sunglasses inaccurate?
• 57:45
  They're just plain black. There's nothing to it. What did you wear either,
• 57:50
  Like you know, I wore sunglasses that had like like I wore,
• 57:52
  like really a prod of sunglasses like purple sides. I guess it is what
• 57:59
  it is right to paint the frames. Yeah, but I love it.
• 58:05
  I love that has the long knee pad. It's really really cool, really
• 58:07
  really great. I love this figure and like I said, it's just weird
• 58:13
  because it comes out, you know after the basic where I still believe I
• 58:19
  should have got a one legged tightw fiers cannot be choosers. I can do
• 58:25
  both and any consideration at this point too, maybe getting into collecting Mattel's now
• 58:30
  that you have a figure. No, okay, no, but a little
• 58:34
  backstory the reason I switched from the one legged tights to the trunks and says
• 58:37
  I'm now on raw, and Jericho pulls me aside and says, you know,
• 58:43
  you just got to be taken more seriously. Now, the one legged
• 58:45
  tights were great to get over to stand out. You did that. Now
• 58:47
  you got to switch to the trunks to be taken more seriously. So the
• 58:52
  one legged tights came about because, yeah it was. But when Brian and
• 58:54
  I split up, I knew I was still an edge guy, right,
• 58:59
  whether I can just be the edge guy by himself. Yeah, so I
• 59:02
  had to drastically change everything, cut my hair, the one legged tights because
• 59:07
  I wanted people to be like, Okay, they might not know my name,
• 59:09
  but that's the guy who wrestled in the legged tights. So that's the
• 59:12
  guy who says woo woo woo. I just try to be so different from
• 59:15
  the edgeheads to stand out. And the next figure, believe it or not,
• 59:22
  is the infamous. Oh my god, why are we talking about this?
• 59:25
  How is this next? Broken? No? I also don't believe this
• 59:30
  is next, but no, because you assume that this is only gonna be
• 59:36
  once you're over as this. Yeah, I guess this. Maybe you are
• 59:38
  because this comes out Christmas season or fall season. Faster to make a gnome
• 59:45
  than a detail that twenty eleven. This is one of the guys. There's
• 59:50
  a legit Zach Ryder Gnome Club. Okay. The these pap up an eBay,
• 59:54
  they go for almost a thousand bucks in it's almost impossible to find it
• 59:59
  in this package. Okay, So I love it. It's really really cool.
• 1:00:02
  He's doing the fist pump. I would give someone a thousand dollars to
• 1:00:06
  not own that, So I own it. Great, I owned two.
• 1:00:09
  I remember my good friend Michael Chippetta brought one in. I don't know what
• 1:00:14
  he was doing. He like what the show. He worked at a school,
• 1:00:15
  he was a janitor school and wanted to show it, show it off
• 1:00:19
  to the kids, and it dropped, it shattered. I want to fucking
• 1:00:22
  kill him. And now I knew they were rare back then. Oh man,
• 1:00:28
  there's rare now, Brian, your nuts. I would love to just
• 1:00:30
  because of the of the story that it's become in our podcast. I would
• 1:00:34
  love to have one. I would put it in prominently so I would never
• 1:00:37
  spend a thousand bucks for it, No, but I would probably do.
• 1:00:39
  I'm a diehard Mets fan. They made a bunch of Mets like this.
• 1:00:43
  This. No, I'm like, nah, man, nope, no,
• 1:00:45
  he's doing the fist pump. It's great. Well, so okay, So
• 1:00:50
  that's so timeline wise, since we're keeping that in our minds here, twenty
• 1:00:53
  eleven is the year of the YouTube show fifty episode. We talked about it
• 1:00:58
  on mc TORU longan story on this YouTube page. There's fifty two episodes.
• 1:01:02
  You do an entire year starting in February of twenty eleven. I still think
• 1:01:07
  this comes out two thousand one, right, But that's what I'm saying.
• 1:01:13
  So at the so eight episodes into this YouTube show, somewhere in March or
• 1:01:17
  end of March, Broski is getting chance in Arenas, and then it's the
• 1:01:23
  whole summer and all that stuff, and you're leading into all this Dolf Zegler
• 1:01:28
  stuff. Very popular. You can listen to that entire story on our YouTube
• 1:01:32
  channel. But you know, obviously they don't know that this is going to
• 1:01:37
  happen. They don't know that you're going to become one of the craziest merch
• 1:01:40
  sellers in the company. So you would assume that everybody is scrambling like what
• 1:01:46
  can we do for zach Ryder as soon as possible? Well, and they
• 1:01:52
  do bang out some hotels. We'll talk about them. But next up is
• 1:01:55
  the very infamous squinky. I don't know if you're see it, wink ease.
• 1:02:01
  He's doing the l I. I love that. It's pretty great.
• 1:02:06
  It's so tiny, it's so tiny, it's little squinky, he says,
• 1:02:09
  absolutely shocked to find out that I had a Squinkye, what you do?
• 1:02:15
  I love these squinkies. Yeah, they're fine. I mean asking my kids
• 1:02:22
  back then. I didn't know this because they didn't have kids then, but
• 1:02:24
  like my kids loved like little things like this, Like, yeah, that's
• 1:02:29
  out of my case of all my cool figures that I've had in my life.
• 1:02:34
  Madison's always like trying to get to that one for some reason, which
• 1:02:36
  is ridiculous. Next up is the Rumbler with Ray Mysterio. Yes, I
• 1:02:47
  have a two pack with Ray Mysterio. This you're talking about good check.
• 1:02:52
  This is a pretty good check being a two pack with Ray Mysterio. L
• 1:03:00
  that's like just really random, right, you never like touched, right,
• 1:03:01
  they never touched right. This is a random the Sunglass or Remova will do
• 1:03:07
  in the l I. I love the style of figures figure so cool,
• 1:03:10
  so cartoony, and they they did a little deep dive. They went deep
• 1:03:15
  with this line. So there's some stars, there's some mid carters, there's
• 1:03:17
  a lot of play sets. They're way smaller, but they remind me of
• 1:03:21
  that new line that's out now that we talk about a lot of knuckle crunches.
• 1:03:24
  I love these way better than knuckle crunches, So I like those better
• 1:03:27
  than knuckle crunches too. Knuckle crunches are fine, but The Rumblers were something
• 1:03:30
  I always wanted to have, and I thought they were so fun, and
• 1:03:34
  I wish they'd like I got it. The kids stuff doesn't stand the test
• 1:03:37
  of time, but I wish but rumblers went on for a while, or
• 1:03:39
  they could just have a little comeback, little comeback. They love their knuckle
• 1:03:45
  crunchers. They're different though. Yeah. Next up is Zach Ryder. Basic.
• 1:03:53
  Now, I in my memory remember this coming out sooner, but I
• 1:03:57
  trust the freedom here this gear. I wore it the wrestle Mania pre show.
• 1:04:01
  It's like a right, yeah, we actually have a photo of myself,
• 1:04:05
  Brian and Tamperetta. Yeah gear. Yeah, it's Long Island ic.
• 1:04:10
  You get the Long Island. The ic does look naked. The head looks
• 1:04:14
  naked without the head band, right, it looks weird without the headband.
• 1:04:16
  Yeah, but you yeah, no, I get it. And this is
• 1:04:20
  like brand new sculpt, brand new sculpt, and say, like the side
• 1:04:27
  smile. Uh, that's that's definitely a photoshop picture of That's fine. I
• 1:04:30
  don't mind the photoshop pictures. But Zach Ryder with the Woo Woo woo headband
• 1:04:34
  just feels a little naked to me. But I love it. They got
• 1:04:36
  the details down on the knee pad, the broken ice. Really cool gear
• 1:04:42
  for me. But this is still like I'm doing the YouTube show, but
• 1:04:46
  I just started at this point, so I'm still doing nothing on a raw.
• 1:04:49
  I think there's I think I wrestled Kobe Kingston on raw wearing this gear.
• 1:04:54
  There's still nothing. There's a period where you are over and the Internet
• 1:05:00
  is loving you and people are watching your show at crazy levels, but you're
• 1:05:03
  still nobody in ww cares yet don't even know what YouTube is. Yeah,
• 1:05:09
  right, and then we get a little rapid fire here. So next up
• 1:05:14
  is this right here. This is what happens when you get over, folks,
• 1:05:16
  Well, you get some figures. It is an elite maybe with the
• 1:05:23
  Internet Championship. This is one of, if not my favorite figures ever in
• 1:05:29
  like this gray gear. They even got like the purple tongues on the boots,
• 1:05:32
  the head the ru serious bro it has the QR code on the side,
• 1:05:39
  ZR down there, orange sunglasses now take note the wwwyki headband. Finally,
• 1:05:45
  also, guys, the debut of the Internet Championship. I had to
• 1:05:53
  actually give permission written permission to Mattel to make that title because I never wore
• 1:05:58
  it. Yeah, licensed item right, never war it was on television.
• 1:06:03
  Now this next photo you're gonna see, I'll tell you a sad story.
• 1:06:06
  This is from Sandiocomic Con twenty twelve. As you can see, there's the
• 1:06:11
  Zach Ryder wearing a Broski headband. Now that is Broski. There turns out
• 1:06:17
  to be a big scandal over the word Broski. Ken w use it?
• 1:06:21
  Can they not? So Mattel tells me they're gonna scrap the Brosky on the
• 1:06:28
  headband, like you can't just put out an elite figure with a plane gray
• 1:06:30
  headband. So I get a new headband made so it's wwyki, so it's
• 1:06:34
  accurate. I prove, I proved to build real pictures. That's why they're
• 1:06:38
  able to switch it. But this actual test shot prototype, if you will,
• 1:06:42
  Bill gives it to me classic story to protect it. I wrap it
• 1:06:45
  up in what else but a hotel hand towel and on the road. On
• 1:06:51
  the road, I end up leaving it behind, thinking it's just a used
• 1:06:56
  hotel hand towel. So I left the only broke key headman in a hotel
• 1:07:00
  in California somewhere I was devastated. It's pretty rough. We've said that if
• 1:07:06
  you are a fan of that X Trong story show, this is the definitive
• 1:07:14
  role and story action figure that you would need. I love it. And
• 1:07:17
  it's just like he's holding the glasses too. It looks great. I wish
• 1:07:23
  it would have come with like a flip camera, but I get it too
• 1:07:25
  many accessories. It would have been cool. Belt. It's just pretty insane,
• 1:07:30
  and you know a lot about licensing and all that stuff to do this
• 1:07:32
  belting for the video game or they just do that without your permission. They
• 1:07:36
  did it without my permission for the game. Yeah, I'm not going to
• 1:07:40
  complain. I'm not going to assume him now after the fact I should righte.
• 1:07:45
  No, but one of my favorite figures of all time, just a
• 1:07:47
  very special moment in my career. Next up is the Zach Ryder. Now,
• 1:07:59
  this this is a kind of a mishmash figure. This is from supposedly
• 1:08:02
  it's from Survivor series twenty eleven where I do the run in and you know
• 1:08:06
  the rock. Yeah, it's like woo all that shit. But Bill mckina
• 1:08:10
  does not like splatter paint and takes all the splatter paint off it. So
• 1:08:15
  as you see there's the statue, but maybe he doesn't like it, but
• 1:08:17
  we know from our interview for some sup Sven, so it's inaccurate. Boots
• 1:08:24
  that have like purple and yellow, like purple and orange, and like I
• 1:08:29
  never I don't like this. Yeah, so it's just weird because all blue
• 1:08:33
  and yellow, then you have purple and yellow, purple. It keeps seeing
• 1:08:35
  yellow, purple and orange. Then the boots are purple and orange. So
• 1:08:40
  this is supposed to be when you came out on surviv series. Yeah,
• 1:08:42
  he literally got a bigger reaction than the rock at the garden, So I
• 1:08:45
  think that's damn action figure. It's pretty cool. Nose bleeds watching that,
• 1:08:50
  by the way, So I wore this gear on like MS another MSG house
• 1:08:55
  show, but this was never on TV ever besides uh Survivor series twenty eleven.
• 1:09:00
  The worst part is the photoshop headband with nothing. Yeah, I was
• 1:09:03
  just thinking, right, Remember I used to make fun of man him,
• 1:09:05
  like when they do that, it looks like you're going to like curves for
• 1:09:08
  work. It's so not cool when they do that too. Yeah, and
• 1:09:13
  then WW and Matelvida all the time with things, so Brian. At this
• 1:09:16
  point, you're just in Florida, just raging with the dudebusters. No,
• 1:09:20
  no, I'm back. I'm back. I'm tolling away. Here, he's
• 1:09:25
  back. Next up. I love this tow pack. This is the defend
• 1:09:30
  this. To me, this is the definitive of Zach Ryder, the battle
• 1:09:32
  pack. Here's the curves head been I just referenced, Yes, the Zach
• 1:09:35
  Ryder with Dolph Ziggler with a classic ring bell. But this is the classic
• 1:09:41
  Zach Rider gear with a QR code. Here the Brosky logo in the back.
• 1:09:45
  I don't think these boots are accurate here. I think they're missing some
• 1:09:48
  detail, maybe like they're missing the top. They're missing something I don't know
• 1:09:54
  exactly. This their hair is lighter. Does this set depict the US title
• 1:09:59
  wind? No, it depicts the feud, but not the wind. Okay,
• 1:10:02
  so this is the classic. To me, when I close my eyes,
• 1:10:04
  I think if Broski twenty eleven, Zach, this is the gear.
• 1:10:08
  What's the story about that ring bell? Didn't you make a joke of something
• 1:10:12
  a ring bell and that somebody found the proof of that. You guys use
• 1:10:14
  a ring bell at some point or something. No, no, no,
• 1:10:16
  I was saying like that. In one of our episodes. He said,
• 1:10:19
  Mattel's never made a ring bell. They really should, oh right. The
• 1:10:23
  following weeks, so goes bro, it's in your goddamn tupac, but on
• 1:10:28
  that QR code on your crosh with your phone. I don't know if you
• 1:10:30
  can anymore, but you used to be able to do. Because here's the
• 1:10:32
  story of the QR think you. I believe you so so the story of
• 1:10:36
  the QR code is so Zach Ryder. He's getting popular. They're making merch
• 1:10:43
  at the time. I just have a basic T shirt, like a twelve
• 1:10:45
  ninety nine basic T shirt or whatever whatever the price was, and it's selling.
• 1:10:47
  They want to make you a real shirt. But I'm not on TV
• 1:10:50
  yet, and they pitched me these ideas, and I don't want to say
• 1:10:54
  it was sabotage, but it was like, you gotta be kidding me with
• 1:10:56
  this, Like I'm one of those. One of them is like a panda
• 1:10:59
  bear, is like a seal, like what was like packet and he was
• 1:11:04
  the boys and we were like no, what And then one is a giant
• 1:11:06
  QR code and I'm like, guys, I like the idea of the QR
• 1:11:11
  code, but like, let's hide it on the show, can't be the
• 1:11:13
  whole shirt, so I end up putting in on my gear and stuff like
• 1:11:15
  that. But that gear is so iconic to me that I ended up wearing
• 1:11:18
  something similar as Matt Cardona. We have an upcoming major Bendy's in that gear
• 1:11:25
  QR code and I Wrestle Ziggler. I wrestled sorry at GCW and Ringside Collectibles
• 1:11:30
  will have the matching uh Nick Nemoth Bendy very very soon on their website.
• 1:11:39
  Yeah, that's my classic two pac figure. Brian I believe got it signed
• 1:11:43
  not to hang on his wall but to sell. So oh yeah, of
• 1:11:45
  course. Uh Brian is next, folks, let's talk about it a long
• 1:11:51
  time coming. Oh that's the Squinkies first. I actually think this is the
• 1:11:57
  only thing in like my whole career that depicts like pants return to w tagging
• 1:12:01
  with Lance Archer, Kurt Hawkins, the Squinkies series five, same thing.
• 1:12:09
  These are toys rusts, and I never left them on the peg that would
• 1:12:12
  just scoop them up. But now I have none, and I wish I
• 1:12:14
  had some because, like I said, my kids bugged me about them.
• 1:12:15
  By the way, speaking of at least you're not a mystery person. Isn't
• 1:12:19
  like heat and mystery. Yeah, some people are mysteries. You don't even
• 1:12:24
  know you're in there. Yeah, I damn, what's up? Mark?
• 1:12:28
  You were saying? Good? Also, I mean did you hold up the
• 1:12:31
  squink? I mean, squinky? Is this big tiny, so small,
• 1:12:35
  so ridiculous. I have like a small rick Flair thing, but that's not
• 1:12:40
  a squinky. It's not a squinky. It's like it's not squishy at all.
• 1:12:45
  And it came in like a pack with like they're squishy like almost like
• 1:12:47
  it's very similar. It's like it's a freaking vending machine item. Yeah.
• 1:12:53
  Yeah, it's neat though It's cool, all right. Next up again,
• 1:13:00
  Bill mckina hates splatter paint. It's the Z true Long Island Story figure.
• 1:13:06
  I love this figure. This is a new mold of the head. I
• 1:13:10
  believe, is it? Yeah? I believe something with the smiling. They
• 1:13:13
  have some stubble on me. If you actually like zoom in you can see
• 1:13:16
  the stubble. He's got the merch wristbands. I like, there's no logo,
• 1:13:20
  but that's fine. The QR code, the Z trolling Island story logo
• 1:13:25
  and the back says Z true long Island story. That's damn so really cool.
• 1:13:30
  I'm proud of that. Again, I'm not sure what these fucking boots
• 1:13:33
  if they're just making up shut for the boots, if I had boots like
• 1:13:35
  this, I'm not quite sure. But I love this figure. It's just
• 1:13:40
  very plain without the splatter. But I get it. It's literally impossible to
• 1:13:45
  put splatter paint on a basic at this time, not quite Bill. No,
• 1:13:48
  Bill told me he just doesn't like the look of splatter paint. Okay,
• 1:13:51
  but that's a ridiculous excuse if it costs too much money. I get
• 1:13:55
  it right then, they were basics, were real figures. They could have
• 1:13:59
  did it possible. They could have everybody else out the line though, like
• 1:14:02
  you, I mean exactly, yeah, yeah, exactly. But I dig
• 1:14:05
  this figure a lot. Listen my YouTube show. Now, not only do
• 1:14:10
  I have the belt that I created, now the logo is on figure form,
• 1:14:14
  So I like that a lot. Next up, Oh, baby,
• 1:14:21
  my mom, I'm proud of this. It's a Kurn Hawkins figure that comes
• 1:14:26
  with the free Brotus Battle Pack series twenty. One of my favorite figures.
• 1:14:31
  I've ever had in my career. I mean obviously, like I kind of
• 1:14:34
  alluded to, I was just, you know, I came back from FCW.
• 1:14:36
  I was like tolling away, you know. I tagged with the It's
• 1:14:41
  Archer. I freaking that didn't work out. Then I tagged with Tyler Rex.
• 1:14:45
  That's what this depicts actually a little little bit of a Makina mashup.
• 1:14:51
  As far as the gear, it's not like a hundred percent accurate. I
• 1:14:55
  had a red pair that was like this, and then I think I had
• 1:14:58
  the extra Hawkins and they're removed. They're the ones going forward because I thought
• 1:15:01
  it was a little too cluttery. So this gear kana really doesn't exist.
• 1:15:05
  What do you do with Lance Archer? Uh, it's like a I mean
• 1:15:11
  go back and watch we like squash dudes. We beat Christian and m VP
• 1:15:15
  and Matt hart. I mean we Matt Hardy. Like there's like a battle
• 1:15:18
  oil man. It's smacked down, and I get down to like the final
• 1:15:21
  four to be like number one contender, like it's like a crazy month month
• 1:15:26
  and a half. And then like we had a stinker with like JTG and
• 1:15:30
  MVP. Itn't done. And that's what was on TV. No, that's
• 1:15:34
  the other ways. It was like on Superstars. It's just like and that
• 1:15:40
  was it like like almost like they were looking for an excuse to stop it,
• 1:15:45
  and then we gave it to him. Yeah, I can tell you
• 1:15:47
  Lance leaves and then you start training to let go and then I'm just like
• 1:15:53
  doing whatever I can trying to get on. And then they just randomly put
• 1:15:59
  Rex and I together cause he had a singles run that didn't really work out,
• 1:16:01
  and they put us together and then like we were like screw it,
• 1:16:04
  Like what do we got to lose, and like we worked our asses off.
• 1:16:09
  Man, We put over everybody on the roster seven times over. And
• 1:16:13
  then finally, which really helped a lot, was that's when they had kind
• 1:16:15
  of given up on NXT, and NXT was like this land of its own
• 1:16:18
  and you could kind of like do stuff and get over. We're able to
• 1:16:21
  do like storylines and talk. That's where I introduced the cane for the first
• 1:16:25
  time, which kind of similarly what Matt was saying earlier, like I just
• 1:16:29
  wanted something to identify myself with a WW audience, like not just like some
• 1:16:34
  generic wrestler and we oh the guy at least I'll be the guy with the
• 1:16:36
  cane if you forget or above all. And I was watching a lot of
• 1:16:40
  Pillman stuff at the time, and I loved that debut in ECW where the
• 1:16:44
  lights come on he has that cane. I'm like, that's so freaking cool.
• 1:16:46
  So there was something in XT where someone hurt my ankle and I had
• 1:16:50
  to justify that I needed this cane, and that's how the whole cane thing
• 1:16:53
  started, which I love and you know hate. I have a love hate
• 1:16:57
  relationship with the kane because I loved having it. The traveling around the freaking
• 1:17:00
  world with it sucked. I don't know why you didn't make one twisted in
• 1:17:03
  half. I could never we tried. I had the proper guys. Look,
• 1:17:08
  there was just I had that particular one I didn't want to change.
• 1:17:10
  I'm like, this is the cane, you know, and then it just
• 1:17:13
  wasn't doable. Towards the end of my second run with WB, I was
• 1:17:16
  able to keep one on the prop truck, so if I was going to
• 1:17:19
  just TV, I didn't have to bring the cane right and it would be
• 1:17:24
  on the TV like prop truck. But that's great, travel the world with
• 1:17:27
  it. Yeah, but I love this too. I love the likeness.
• 1:17:30
  I love everything about it. I love that comes with the cane. I
• 1:17:32
  love the necklace painted on painted on necklace, which is a crazy detail something
• 1:17:38
  that Matt and I did a lot in our career, which was really a
• 1:17:40
  hair tie that when we were growing when we were growing our hair out in
• 1:17:44
  Deep South, we'd wear them to practice to keep you know, the hair
• 1:17:46
  out of our eyes, and then obviously rolling around sweating wrestling, they would
• 1:17:50
  fall around down our necks and then we kind of like at some point we're
• 1:17:53
  like, man, that's pretty cool actually, And I wore it. It
• 1:17:58
  was like a safety blanket for me for for years of my career. I
• 1:18:00
  wore it all the time, like I need to have it for like good
• 1:18:04
  luck or I don't know what it was. And Jackson never put that detail
• 1:18:08
  on a figure, even though every single time we're wearing it, you know
• 1:18:11
  what I mean, even like Edge had's the major brother days very I'm pretty
• 1:18:15
  positive. Wow. Yeah, so uh it's a great figure. It's the
• 1:18:18
  only figure that depicts that, which I think is freaking awesome. Yeah.
• 1:18:21
  I love this figure. Man, Now that's I remember you bunch, what's
• 1:18:27
  that I lost to Brotus a ton this, I mean, I think what
• 1:18:30
  justifies this even though it doesn't depict the gear we were wearing. I was
• 1:18:33
  the first guy to lose to Brotus in his debut as the Funkosaurus, so
• 1:18:36
  a lot of people remember that. People also misconstrued when they get this two
• 1:18:41
  back, they think the hat and the cane er for Brodus. I always
• 1:18:44
  opposed, like he's like hello, my huh hello, see that a lot.
• 1:18:50
  But yeah, I love that, you know, Brotus, clay Verse,
• 1:18:53
  Curt Offkins is pretty cool. And I know Bill and those guys are
• 1:18:56
  doing me a favor, kind of like throwing me a bone to get me
• 1:18:59
  in the line. And another little tidbit he wound up, you know,
• 1:19:02
  quitting WW. But I believe Rex was next and he was gonna come with
• 1:19:05
  Rye back, which also made sense because that's somebody that we put over back
• 1:19:10
  in the day like a million times when he was getting started. Wow.
• 1:19:13
  And then they replaced him with Gender in the hall because he was slotted to
• 1:19:16
  be in there, and damnhow pretty crazy? All right? Well, next
• 1:19:21
  up we have yes more Rumblers, Zach Ryder and dark Side Yoshi Tatsu.
• 1:19:30
  Why do I feel like I don't remember this the fact that it's dark Side
• 1:19:35
  Tatsu. Just yeah, So I wrestled Yoshi Tatsu a lot, but I
• 1:19:39
  don't think I ever wrestled dark Side Yoshi. So very toriadik with the face
• 1:19:45
  paint Yoshi Tatsu's rumbler first I can't even read first Yoshi Tatsu rumblers figure first
• 1:19:51
  time. Oh, let's let's talk about that. On your Brian figure does
• 1:19:55
  not say first time in the line. I was just looking for that.
• 1:19:57
  Wait, go back to that. Maybe that was the thing I remember being
• 1:20:01
  There was something about that at the time too. People are like, why
• 1:20:03
  doesn't it by that point they're saying first time in the line, Like,
• 1:20:08
  obviously, my first one doesn't say first time in the line because most of
• 1:20:10
  the time, most of the guys and girls were first time in the line,
• 1:20:14
  right series ten? Yeah, yeah, true. So the two pack
• 1:20:18
  with Yoshi's cool more listen more than merrier me. I'm all in. I
• 1:20:23
  got let's go this one. This was one of my dream products I wish
• 1:20:26
  I had. Now that I see the Dark Side Tatsu got one, my
• 1:20:29
  feelings are pretty damn hurt, right and Broski. This this payday wasn't as
• 1:20:32
  good as the raymisterial one that got all the money. Bro It's fine,
• 1:20:38
  people, guys. The Mattel is ordering the set, you know what I'm
• 1:20:42
  saying, So, like it doesn't matter if it's like Rams or Yoshi,
• 1:20:46
  it's the same money. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Like the
• 1:20:49
  stores are ordering it from Mattel, like the whole set. Yeah, usually
• 1:20:54
  before they even know who's in the lineup. So it's not like big shows
• 1:20:58
  story of knowing how many figures he sold and the money he makes off of
• 1:21:01
  those figures. Dots are just tweeted himself into a damn squisher. Oh boy,
• 1:21:06
  all right. Next up, we have little rumblers or rabas, this
• 1:21:14
  one that like pops up it down right, yeah, like you can't if
• 1:21:16
  you're watching. He does a little like, oh yeah, that's kind of
• 1:21:20
  cool. It's like I have a missionary mic maneuver. Oh my god,
• 1:21:25
  I'm not quite sure what he's doing. It's cool this one. The glasses
• 1:21:27
  are molded on little articulations of metallic paint. Yeah, yeah, a little
• 1:21:34
  metallic Yeah, guys, I'm a figure whore. Give me as many figures
• 1:21:38
  as possible. I don't care, bro, I'm loving it. I'm loving
• 1:21:42
  it. Anyone says, don't make figures of me, you are a psychopath,
• 1:21:45
  sir, show me the figures and show me the money. Uh,
• 1:21:50
  next up we have this is one one of the worst figures of all time.
• 1:21:57
  Oh man, Zach Ryder with jerk off action. Crack them up,
• 1:22:02
  Press, We're about on here. You're twisting these. These suck, bro,
• 1:22:09
  these are horrible. I'll never forget SummerSlam twenty twelve, right yeah.
• 1:22:15
  Post SummerSlam twenty twelve at TV, we had a meeting with Metallic because we
• 1:22:17
  were already in California, and they presented these to us, like the entire
• 1:22:21
  roster, a meeting like acting like these were going to change the game.
• 1:22:27
  Some de fist so bad. So what happens is they connected the wrists and
• 1:22:30
  on the back you can like screw it and like twist it up, and
• 1:22:33
  they're supposed to flip fly around into this. It never works. It doesn't
• 1:22:38
  work. It's not a ring. It's more like a plastic dome. It's
• 1:22:42
  so stupid. It's they're horrible, Like they're just so bad. So is
• 1:22:46
  it They're they're supposed to like wrestle each other and whoever. I'm yeah,
• 1:22:49
  they do people wrestle like that with handshake wrestling, Like what are they doing?
• 1:22:55
  I mean, what am I doing here? Markle Right, it's ridiculous.
• 1:23:00
  We're gonna get I think that's great to be I think I have it,
• 1:23:06
  you know what. To be fair, it looks decent in the package.
• 1:23:12
  Weird, aren't they like a string inside that they kind of like fall
• 1:23:14
  apart when you're like, yeah, yeah, it's a weird figure. It
• 1:23:17
  looks fine in the school. I do like how the look of it where
• 1:23:21
  it's not inside the package necessarily, where it's a little loose, them up
• 1:23:25
  and pressed for battle, crank them up, power slammers, baby crunch the
• 1:23:31
  crank. Ironically, Rosky has done a lot of cranking. So yeah,
• 1:23:35
  I don't like these figures. Like I said, I'll take it. They
• 1:23:39
  were unreal botch like they were discounted. They're everywhere. Well. The other
• 1:23:44
  thing too, is just looking at them, those the ones before with Yoshi
• 1:23:49
  Tatsu. They look cool. There's like a cartoony fun nature to them,
• 1:23:53
  and that even the knuckle crunchers. I just think that they look cool and
• 1:23:57
  and aesthetic. These look like a botch, like the head looks weird and
• 1:24:00
  even like like you can't play with them even you would have played with them
• 1:24:03
  for real and you can't and you can't stand them up. The legs are
• 1:24:06
  all like wobbly, yeah, weird, like the legs have a fucking string
• 1:24:12
  like. Yeah, that's what I was trying to explain. Yeah, they're
• 1:24:13
  so dumb. There's such a swing in a miss man Yeah whack. Yeah,
• 1:24:18
  so that's a little uh knuckle cruncher right there, what's next? Yes,
• 1:24:28
  I was jealous about this too. Yeah, the brawling buddy with Scott
• 1:24:33
  Hall, stubble with Gray It looks like I have a gray beard. I'm
• 1:24:38
  all for it. Over ten SASD phrases, try me press, let's se
• 1:24:42
  if it works, it doesn't work anymore. It's like get ready for the
• 1:24:47
  rough Rider. Yeah. I remember when Brooklyn Brawler brought me to do the
• 1:24:53
  voiceovers for it. I was so pumped. I was so pumped that I
• 1:24:58
  was getting one of these. Did they give you lines? Did you?
• 1:25:00
  I'm up with the ten lines? I don't quite remember, to be honest,
• 1:25:03
  Well, Mark, I will remember that there was one of those on
• 1:25:05
  the couch I created for years and right, yeah, yeah, get ready
• 1:25:10
  for the rough Runner. We're not bros fuck real superstar voices. You must
• 1:25:16
  have said you know it right, I don't know if they did, oh
• 1:25:20
  my god. And again something that didn't Those didn't last long either. I'll
• 1:25:26
  never forget that, that same meeting that Brian's talking about where they showed the
• 1:25:30
  power Slammers, they showed this up and actually had it, and Bill mckina
• 1:25:33
  wouldn't give it to me, and I wasn't quite sure if it was going
• 1:25:36
  to come out, so I stole it. Don't talk anybody, I just
• 1:25:44
  I just took it home with me. I've heard that story, so I
• 1:25:46
  mean also, to be fair, like your brosky popularity run was like pretty
• 1:25:50
  over by that, so I'd be concerned, That's what I'm saying. I
• 1:25:53
  was like, okay, let's let's let's make sure we get this. Yeah,
• 1:25:59
  next up. Now, this is an odd one. The thumpers,
• 1:26:03
  these little thumb wrestler thumpers. I have, Brock. I have three versions
• 1:26:12
  of this, okay, so as you can see, I have one in
• 1:26:15
  a box. It's the one I display. It's easiest. Have you ever
• 1:26:17
  signed that before? I'm not quite sure, well you will now, pal.
• 1:26:23
  So it's a thumper like in a box. Then I have a thumper
• 1:26:28
  like on like a card right with a picture of me. We're wearing like
• 1:26:33
  a uh, you know, a song. But then there's a thumper with
• 1:26:39
  no picture of me. That's brock Lesner right there. Yeah, so as
• 1:26:45
  you can tell, they're they're they're different here, so not quite sure.
• 1:26:50
  Good for the show. Emon Merrickman thinks there's another version, but that might
• 1:26:55
  just be like a studio samp or a studio shop. So cool item,
• 1:27:00
  I guess again, I'll take anything. Yeah, this is the definition of
• 1:27:05
  I'll take anything that's pretty cool. And this was a random time here because
• 1:27:08
  this isn't even Mattel right, this is Jeremy is all cool to what was
• 1:27:14
  Jeremy Wicked cool toy? Okay cool, Yeah, it's wicky cool, pretty
• 1:27:19
  cool. Jeremy Pedouer Wicked cool toys, Wicky cool all right. Next up
• 1:27:27
  we have this is interesting Zach Ryder sick. This is uh. I love
• 1:27:33
  this gear. I love this figure. Actually he's got the sunglasses hanging from
• 1:27:39
  the like like you're hanging the glasses from the crotch. Ye, it's got
• 1:27:43
  the sick on the back and the accurate boots. They actually did the boots
• 1:27:47
  accurately nice, which is cool. They just painted them accurately. They just
• 1:27:51
  kind of gave me like laceless boots and painted them the right way. But
• 1:27:58
  this one actually has a running change. Is very hard to tell. But
• 1:28:01
  it has different heads. So one is like a smirking and one is like
• 1:28:06
  a smile. Why do you think they did that? I don't know.
• 1:28:10
  I mean, like honestly, I can't even you could barely tell. Like
• 1:28:14
  if I show you guys here, like you won't even be able to know.
• 1:28:16
  Wow, Like that's how close to Shane Douglas big head, little head
• 1:28:20
  type situation. So one's doing like a side smile and one's doing like a
• 1:28:24
  regular smile. But it is what it is, same boxes, same boxes.
• 1:28:30
  You're going to the gym with that head. That's basic, Series forty
• 1:28:33
  five basic, So we're I'm in series ten and forty five. Good.
• 1:28:42
  So I like this figure, not like my favorite gear, but I keep
• 1:28:47
  I try to keep every gear. If they made a figure of it,
• 1:28:51
  like one day, I you know, I tapped on that concept. I
• 1:28:55
  have just the more special ones. But yeah, this this this this gear
• 1:29:00
  means nothing to me, Like I'm still zach Ryder, I'm still who Zach
• 1:29:03
  Rider, and I'm still doing the YouTube show, I believe. But this
• 1:29:08
  is like we've been pushed off the stage. Ready, I've already been pushed
• 1:29:14
  off the stage. That's right, I've already been pushed off the stage.
• 1:29:17
  Next up. We still got some figures though, guys, this is a
• 1:29:20
  very special one in my heart. Oh unreleased. Many of you have probably
• 1:29:26
  never seen. No, we're gonna talk about. I forgot about this one.
• 1:29:29
  The ghosts busters basic. I can't even It's like, look at it.
• 1:29:33
  There, it is right there. It's got like the Tan Look,
• 1:29:36
  it's got the zach Ryder, the no Ghost logo doing the l I the
• 1:29:41
  back has the no Ghost logo. I wore this gear on raw. I
• 1:29:46
  got chewed out immediately in the gorilla position. Chewed out immediately in the grill
• 1:29:53
  position. Oh, actually, looking, the boots are inaccurate. It's the
• 1:29:56
  wrong boots, so who would have come out would have been accurate? But
• 1:30:00
  I get shoot out immediately gorilla. And the thing is, I told the
• 1:30:03
  people who were chewing me out, I said, Mattel knows about this.
• 1:30:06
  They told me to wear this a relationship with Ghostbusters. They want to make
• 1:30:11
  this, so I don't know if like w put the stop to this,
• 1:30:15
  or if like just like Mattel put the stop to this, it doesn't come
• 1:30:18
  out. But this is like legit prototype, so it was gonna come out.
• 1:30:27
  That's crazy, so devastating news that it didn't come out. But Bill
• 1:30:30
  mckina, as much as he hates me, he was a nice guy this
• 1:30:33
  day and gave me this prototype. So it's in like a million pieces though.
• 1:30:38
  Like that's why if you're looking at the video, I have like on
• 1:30:41
  the stand because all the parts are like puttied together. People are like protypes
• 1:30:44
  are very fragile guys like beyond fragile. But that would have been one of
• 1:30:48
  my favorite figures if it were to come out. It did not, but
• 1:30:54
  I still get more figures during this run, so I can't necessarily bitch.
• 1:30:58
  This next figure is Mishma City. It's a Superstar entrance. I like this
• 1:31:03
  one though. It's the shirt that you just saw, which is neat.
• 1:31:06
  It's the shirt I was just telling you about the sick with the wwwyk I
• 1:31:12
  but this shirt in this gear was never worn two different years, right,
• 1:31:16
  like this gear right here is like the Tupac with Ziggler's alternate color gear.
• 1:31:21
  Oh okay, so you're saying, so it's like totally wearing that shirt on
• 1:31:26
  Rod during the Ghostbuster gear time. Right, it's a totally different era,
• 1:31:30
  but it's toyatic. I will say that line. Obviously there's a Walmart exclusive.
• 1:31:32
  They always popped to me, like the Zigglers and the pink shirts,
• 1:31:35
  like they're more toyatic looking figures. And the cutout of there you can see
• 1:31:42
  the bag. That's a cool feature. Also real embarrassing here the worst Broski
• 1:31:45
  cut of all time. You wouldn't be cutting covers obviously, that picture is
• 1:31:50
  so photoshopped at fake I love Oh yeah, but I love this shirt.
• 1:31:55
  It did not sell well because it was the first ever soft T shirt from
• 1:32:00
  w and V neck, so it was like the three things that wrestling fans
• 1:32:03
  hate. It was a different color than black soft and a V neck winner.
• 1:32:10
  So I personally loved it because I felt like I could wear it out
• 1:32:14
  in real life, but the fans did not. But it got a figure.
• 1:32:17
  It got a figure, And it doesn't quite make sense, like the
• 1:32:21
  V neck looks great because it looks like the sunglasses are hanging from the v
• 1:32:25
  neck when they just put it on like this, it just was like,
• 1:32:28
  sunglasses on the sut does defeat the purpose. Yeah, it defeats the purpose.
• 1:32:30
  But it has that sick, which is a super catchphrase I had at
• 1:32:34
  the time. I like that. But actually when I hear sick, I
• 1:32:38
  think more of chi than you. Yeah, he stole that from me,
• 1:32:42
  for sure. All right, next up, man, this is another great
• 1:32:46
  story. This is like ultimate Jabron zach Ryder. This is what I've never
• 1:32:51
  understood because Mattel would still make me figures during my Ultimate Jebrone run. But
• 1:32:56
  then when I have a YouTube. Shit. Yeah, but then when I
• 1:32:59
  have the podcast and I went tells the Russel Mayia, I can't get a
• 1:33:01
  figure. I agree that that is something weird with that, for sure,
• 1:33:04
  that's a disconnect. But yeah, so this is Global Superstars. My boots
• 1:33:10
  are painted accurately, got the long tights. The funny story about this,
• 1:33:14
  I was growing out. This is okay, so kind of like how I
• 1:33:16
  switched up my whole look from the edge, So I was trying to do
• 1:33:19
  the same thing for Zach Ryder. Right, Zach Riders It's not working.
• 1:33:23
  Anymore. Right, I've been pushed off the stage. I get rid of
• 1:33:25
  the sunglasses, I get rid of the headband. I try to change my
• 1:33:29
  whole look. I grow my hair out Bradley Cooper style. I wear long
• 1:33:32
  tights. You also were trying to just work out one side of your body.
• 1:33:35
  No, I never did that. I'd never do that. But I'm
• 1:33:40
  just trying to be different. The problem was is when you were drinking a
• 1:33:43
  gown on the milk a day, I was a Balkan. Yeah, it
• 1:33:45
  was Balkan. The problem was I wasn't being featured on TV. So when
• 1:33:48
  like I would still do all the live events. Right, so when I'm
• 1:33:51
  doing these house shows and I don't look like Zach Ryder, there's a disconnect,
• 1:33:58
  you know what I'm saying. Like I come out with I have long
• 1:34:00
  hair, and now that's like I've been off TV for so long. I've
• 1:34:02
  been able to grow my hair long, long time. It's like it's a
• 1:34:05
  weird disconnect. And then Bill mckina he says, hey, we're not making
• 1:34:11
  a new head sculpt. So right to the barber got my hair cut.
• 1:34:14
  I said, Bill, I got a haircut, and then they made the
• 1:34:15
  intel that he's gonna, you know, at least start you up to that.
• 1:34:20
  So yeah, So I think I love this gear, the long tights.
• 1:34:24
  It's cool, cool era of my career. It's like the I don't
• 1:34:28
  know, this is a lost I'm lost in real life. I'm lost into
• 1:34:30
  one thing about Zach Ryder and long Tights in two thousand and thirteen. Forty
• 1:34:34
  Yeah, I'm just but I got to figure out of it. So he
• 1:34:36
  was a big fan of Will William That's what it is. That's what he
• 1:34:41
  was doing. Caught. Yeah, Oh it was a cosplay. That's that's
• 1:34:45
  that's what I'm growing it out. I get to full Bradley Cooper style hangover.
• 1:34:48
  I get to full. I don't remember it flowing. It was flowing.
• 1:34:53
  They got flowing. I don't know it got to flowing. So cool
• 1:34:56
  figure Global Superstars. I believe this was a Walmart exclusive. Not I feel
• 1:35:02
  like it was if it wasn't Global Superstars from all the way along Island,
• 1:35:06
  Long Island. That's a real, yes, real mckeina hook up to put
• 1:35:11
  you in. It's absolutely all right. The next figure we got is I
• 1:35:16
  love this figure Zach Ryder with the w W Championship. This is a chase.
• 1:35:23
  But this gear I wore at WrestleMania the pre show, and it's kind
• 1:35:27
  of like an incarnation of every version of Matt or Zach up until that time.
• 1:35:31
  So the front has like the bros key with the rider right. The
• 1:35:35
  knee pads have like rated R Superstar, but it says z R instead,
• 1:35:41
  and the back says rider in the major brother font. The special feature of
• 1:35:47
  this figure. Yeah, and they actually made a figure that I was so
• 1:35:50
  puppiled. The special feature that the special feature is you bend over. You
• 1:35:57
  can see my ass on the side. Jack Ass. Look at that as
• 1:36:00
  the special feature. For whatever reason, they didn't paint my ass complete bosh
• 1:36:05
  by Motel. They didn't paint the rest of his ass, so he o
• 1:36:10
  people when he When you play with it, that's pretty great. It has
• 1:36:13
  like the darker hair. They still haven't given me a new head sculpt like,
• 1:36:16
  which is I'm not bitching about that, right, They're still using the
• 1:36:20
  take cares by your head sculpe even though I'm not doing that anymore. But
• 1:36:25
  that's fine. I'll take it. It's close enough. But I absolutely love
• 1:36:28
  this figure. This is during my my infamous feud with Adam Rose. Oh
• 1:36:32
  so, oh my god, another thing I could tell you one thing about
• 1:36:36
  what you're doing. The feud was over. They wanted him to be a
• 1:36:39
  Rosebud and he said no, no, and uh, this entire set comes
• 1:36:43
  with a bonus gold buy w No, I was not, well maybe I
• 1:36:47
  was, but it comes a bonus gold WWE Championship. Right, so pretty
• 1:36:54
  cool, Pretty damn cool man. You obviously have both versions been a card
• 1:36:58
  in your collection, right, I do? I know this. These are
• 1:37:00
  my favorite Zach and Kurt figures and I have all of these I have,
• 1:37:05
  I have every one of them in a special case. Yeah right, guys,
• 1:37:10
  these are so rare and fragile. I was not willing to even take
• 1:37:13
  them out of my case. I took mine out. Nope. Oh my
• 1:37:15
  god, brok one drop that's over. Bro. First of all, look
• 1:37:19
  how like they look like like there's baby powder all over them? But like
• 1:37:25
  the likeness is pretty sick though, Oh no, likeness is fantastic. Bro.
• 1:37:29
  You holding that figure, When you hold it back, it looks like
• 1:37:32
  you're holding a picture, like you cut out a picture so you can say
• 1:37:38
  nice things about one. These are w Sta Ramba figures that were we were
• 1:37:44
  legitimately three D scanned. I remember in the session, we weren't allowed to
• 1:37:48
  really do many like poses. There wasn't a lot of options, right,
• 1:37:53
  Like I got told no no a bunch and I finally just gave up and
• 1:37:56
  did this one. And then they were only available to this like German website
• 1:38:01
  in these three different sizes. Now, I don't think I had the other
• 1:38:05
  two sizes, but I don't glitch of the website or something. I don't
• 1:38:10
  know, but mine, they're for sure had them all. They would come
• 1:38:14
  from Germany, they would take forever, and then they'd often more times than
• 1:38:17
  not be broken. Every single one of mine that I got broke. Even
• 1:38:20
  this one is glued right. So the detail is so great. I wonder
• 1:38:25
  if I could show you guys this like on the You see like this black
• 1:38:29
  on the gray boot. Yeah, yeah, that's the velcrow of my boot
• 1:38:32
  showing Okay, Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They did so much.
• 1:38:36
  There's not an artist taking liberties with this. This is an exact scan of
• 1:38:41
  what we looked like in that moment, you know what I mean. Yeah,
• 1:38:45
  it's blown my mind when you hold it, and I think people will
• 1:38:47
  understand when you're holding it in your hand. My mind is telling me that
• 1:38:51
  you were holding a picture because it's it literally looks like it's it must be
• 1:38:56
  like the first kind of version of a three D type of thing. Feels
• 1:39:01
  like it can't explain. It feels like like a sand dollar. What's weird
• 1:39:05
  to me, though, Brian, is like you have like a a jacket
• 1:39:08
  or vest on in your photo that I don't understand. Maybe that was just
• 1:39:12
  some studio picture. Maybe we took multiple poses. I don't remember. Well,
• 1:39:16
  Brian, this is right before you switch to the singlet, so you
• 1:39:20
  were probably maybe like maybe I'll cover up. I have no idea, but
• 1:39:26
  I will say this. It's in my display case. I have one mint.
• 1:39:29
  It came in like almost like a shoe box, the big one,
• 1:39:30
  yep, And I have it mint and sealed in my storage and like not
• 1:39:34
  to be ever touched. And then I have one on display that's fallen over
• 1:39:38
  several times and broken and been glued and taped. But even then it's nice
• 1:39:43
  enough where people will look at my thinking like what they always go, what
• 1:39:45
  is that? Like? What is that thing? Like? That's what I'm
• 1:39:46
  saying it So I had it looks so real and we're also such psychopaths,
• 1:39:51
  like only like I feel like only Matt and I even knew these existed because
• 1:39:56
  like years later Heath saw mine was like what is that? I'm like,
• 1:39:59
  you definitely three of those, bro, And he never bought him, saw
• 1:40:01
  him nothing, you know what I mean. It's not like people can bring
• 1:40:03
  him to sign. There's not If you put this on eBay, you can't
• 1:40:06
  find shit. I have WW Staramba saved for years and nothing comes up.
• 1:40:13
  And everyone on the roster got this at the time, like literally can look
• 1:40:15
  it up. It's a mojo. There's a matching mojo, which technically I
• 1:40:17
  should count, but I won't because I hate to help this. But but
• 1:40:20
  here's the thing too, though. You you guess that maybe they were made
• 1:40:25
  to order, right, you know what, You could be correct in that,
• 1:40:31
  and then there's got to be ones that just never remains right, you
• 1:40:34
  guys, actually could be the I never thought of, yeah, the highest
• 1:40:40
  selling Staramba on the wrong you know what. It would make a lot of
• 1:40:43
  sense they're made to order, yeah, because they came in like generic WW
• 1:40:46
  shoe box looking things, like it wasn't like the Kurt Hawkins box, right,
• 1:40:50
  and they're so fragile. It looks like something that is made like a
• 1:40:53
  three D print. Yeah, and maybe that's why there was no other sizes
• 1:40:58
  of that because you never bought him. No, no, I remember,
• 1:41:01
  like I am a psychic with all my merch. There must have been a
• 1:41:03
  reason why. I like, like when you went to my the order mine
• 1:41:06
  on the website. From what I remember, like the drop down thing had
• 1:41:11
  three different sizes, so I loaded. I would load the card up with
• 1:41:13
  all the Matt's dropped down didn't offer all the sizes. Like it was a
• 1:41:16
  glitch or something, you know what I mean. So he's not wrong,
• 1:41:20
  and maybe maybe later they added it and I don't know about it. I
• 1:41:24
  don't know, but pretty cool. I thought, like everybody else has a
• 1:41:27
  small one to show me. I would have to know if anybody watching this
• 1:41:30
  owns either one of these in the comments, and I love that, would
• 1:41:32
  be very interested to know. We nobody's ever admitted to it. No major
• 1:41:36
  market has ever admitted to it over the years, so I doubt it.
• 1:41:40
  But yeah, all right, hey Broski, I thought you said this was
• 1:41:47
  a party. It is major pb R forever now, Brian, I know
• 1:42:30
  you're jealous of this Serf's up to serves up to dagger through my heart.
• 1:42:39
  This. You know, I'm not in this movie. I wish I was,
• 1:42:43
  but they're just they just include generic superstars with this. But it counts
• 1:42:46
  baby that's sealed right like it's sealed the plastic sealed serves up to waves many
• 1:42:54
  heavy superstar action figure. That's how generic that is. And they just randomly
• 1:43:00
  through in. There's definitely ones with like heat like three MB heath and stuff.
• 1:43:04
  Listen, It's not something I'm gonna display, but I'll keep it if
• 1:43:09
  I if I have fun of that, I was if I was in the
• 1:43:12
  movie, I would, but I'm not in the movie, so I'm not
• 1:43:15
  going to display that. Uh. Next up one of my, if not
• 1:43:19
  my favorite figure of all time figure Zach Ryder. Uh. This is from
• 1:43:26
  my WrestleMania thirty two. I added the interconnel title to mine, why the
• 1:43:30
  fuck not, it's my collection. But for a basic they nailed the deco,
• 1:43:35
  Like all, you can't really tell this whole goddamn video, so for
• 1:43:39
  you to say that all the little like z rs inside on the side,
• 1:43:43
  on the wrist, on the back of the knee pads, the Zach Daddy
• 1:43:47
  got my boots right there, the purple and black boots, new sculpt with
• 1:43:53
  the beard bro. I was so happy when this came out. Obviously,
• 1:43:57
  you know, winning the Interconal title great moment. It comes to the Slammy
• 1:44:00
  bonus Slammy included. There's also a running change. You actually won. It's
• 1:44:05
  not like that. It's a weird world title that no one's won. I
• 1:44:09
  did. I did win a Slammy, not in this era. Multiple Yeah,
• 1:44:13
  there's also a change with different elbows. You can't really tell. You
• 1:44:17
  have to be real psycho to pick it out. It's something I did.
• 1:44:21
  I have them all. I didn't know about the years later, to be
• 1:44:24
  honest, but I love this figure. I wish it was an elite,
• 1:44:28
  but beggars can't be choosers, you know what I'm saying. I love it.
• 1:44:31
  Zach Ryder icy title man. I have this displayed in my collection next
• 1:44:36
  to a basic Razor moment from WrestleMania ten when he won the ladder match and
• 1:44:43
  I got the Austin because Austin talks. This is such a stupid moment.
• 1:44:46
  But Austin pulls me aside after this match and they make a figure of it.
• 1:44:49
  The Dallas three sixteen shirt. That's cool, so whatever, cool cool
• 1:44:56
  moment. I added the title to it. But Zach dadd baby, I
• 1:45:00
  love it. One of my favorite figures. Next up, man, the
• 1:45:06
  hits keep on coming. Baby Bunko Yoko who she she was hooking me up
• 1:45:11
  over there at Funko again, the wrestle Babia gear again, my first ever
• 1:45:15
  Funko does they say the sorry the New York Comic exclusive into the Fall convention
• 1:45:21
  that they sold fye s You're you're in hard on Funkos at this point,
• 1:45:26
  bro, I'm so hard in that they're like, do me a favor sneaking
• 1:45:30
  me into this line. That's cool. I mean, what does forty four
• 1:45:33
  mean? Is that series WW series forty four? I'm just number forty four
• 1:45:36
  in the WWE series fourth w Yeah figure right, wow cool. My only
• 1:45:42
  complaint like my boots, like they put the straps all the way around,
• 1:45:45
  which is not accurate. Yeah, it looks funny, but you can't really
• 1:45:49
  tell impackage. But I love this one regret. And I you ever see
• 1:45:55
  like at comic cons or you know, even at Funko HQ they have like
• 1:45:59
  the giant Funko pops, like they they offered to make one of me.
• 1:46:02
  I would have to buy it. It was ten thousand bucks. I turned
• 1:46:05
  them down. I wish I could have done it, and now you would
• 1:46:10
  do that, no question right, I wish I would have done it.
• 1:46:13
  I have a one to one giant funk Go like those giant ones you see
• 1:46:15
  the conventions. Yeah, man, but what do you do with that freaking
• 1:46:20
  barn? What do you do with the you? You know? I also
• 1:46:24
  fortunate enough a lot of the prototypes, So I like, this is like
• 1:46:30
  one of the only toy companies gets my hair like perfect, perfect perfect,
• 1:46:34
  like I love it. I absolutely love it. So great, so cool.
• 1:46:40
  Next up, this is a big boy, the one of five hundred
• 1:46:45
  Funko HQ. I got it right here in the green, very very rare.
• 1:46:51
  I'm super cool. Hype bros gear. I think no, I don't
• 1:47:00
  think so, no no, And if it no, I don't think so.
• 1:47:02
  This is this is zach Ryder stuff, Zach Daddy. I think this
• 1:47:04
  is post winning ic title gear. Okay, yeah, before the hyper start
• 1:47:10
  in the main roster. Okay, so has the zach Ryder on the back.
• 1:47:14
  Very very rare figure only five hundred. If someone brings one of these
• 1:47:16
  to me at a convention. I stop, everything gets very excited. I'm
• 1:47:20
  making production out of here. Again. This was during the Sharpie era,
• 1:47:26
  so I funk with HQ. It was me and the New Day. New
• 1:47:29
  Day was signing their three packet that had been out, and I'm signing this,
• 1:47:33
  but this is not I'm sure pete pins are invented, but it's not
• 1:47:35
  popular in the biz. People weren't bringing them. Yeah no, so a
• 1:47:40
  lot of the ones I sign now you could tell that people remove the sharpie
• 1:47:43
  signature, which I find interesting. So predamn cool man. Next up,
• 1:47:50
  we got oh god, this is my favorite zach Ryder figure. Oh man,
• 1:47:55
  everyone's favorite timeless historic will say this legendary. At least we got a
• 1:48:03
  two pack. At least you know the agony the years take it off.
• 1:48:08
  My career in life weren't for nothing. We got a two pack out of
• 1:48:12
  it. Hype Bros. This is Dean's first figure torect. First time in
• 1:48:15
  the line. It says, yeah, pads say bro me, bro me,
• 1:48:23
  which got that got taken away? Right? No? Never, you
• 1:48:26
  never had to say bro brow me? And then the back a little zack
• 1:48:30
  down live nice. So I love this gear. Is very Toyota figure.
• 1:48:34
  I would love to have been a fly on the wall. During the initial
• 1:48:40
  Brosky and and Mojo like pitch meetings they were having, like hey, maybe
• 1:48:45
  we should yeah, maybe we should wear green. Yeah, maybe you come
• 1:48:48
  out crazy. I'll follow you. Boots are inaccurate. They paint the straps
• 1:48:54
  so I boosts the wrong colors, so they should be like black straps not
• 1:48:58
  silver. Yeah, and then same thing should be silver not black. But
• 1:49:01
  hey, we got figures. It is what it is. I can't complain.
• 1:49:05
  Happy to at least get figures out of the hype looking Tupac yes,
• 1:49:11
  next figure kind of blew my mind. All right, I'm at Santuel Comic
• 1:49:15
  Con I believe, or maybe it was was it was it Comic Co.
• 1:49:17
  It was a comic con. And then they just showed me like, hey,
• 1:49:20
  we're gonna make you this elite figure the WUSA. I was like,
• 1:49:25
  what, They're gonna make this incredible figure. It's got the uh you know,
• 1:49:30
  the shooting z rs on the back. I love this figure. I
• 1:49:34
  absolutely love it. When did you wear that? In? What was going
• 1:49:38
  on? One time? This is the the night of the Hype bros debut
• 1:49:41
  on the main roster. I wrestle Russet for the US title and then uh
• 1:49:45
  Mojo does a running afterwards to to creak up on a pay per view or
• 1:49:48
  premium live event. Wait wait wait wait wait wait, you were debuting as
• 1:49:55
  a tag team but did a singles match because they were only the Hypros and
• 1:49:58
  NXT. Okay, right, and like w W was a whole different world,
• 1:50:01
  like Rusker is doing his own thing. Okay, oh right, So
• 1:50:05
  why did you get a shot at the at the title Because I'm still like,
• 1:50:09
  I win the ICY title while I'm the hype Ros. Now I wrestle
• 1:50:13
  for the US title as technically I'm still Hypeerros and NXT By this point,
• 1:50:17
  though, I'm hoping it's over like im because now the singles runs work and
• 1:50:20
  they let me change my music. Things are cooking. So you just get
• 1:50:25
  a random title shot at a pay per view. Yeah, and I'm thinking
• 1:50:28
  things are great. Competitive match with russ at the pay per view, I
• 1:50:31
  don't know what competitive is a little it was pretty competitive. It's pretty competitive.
• 1:50:36
  Wash it again on PEACA and then uh Mojo comes out and ruins it.
• 1:50:41
  But since you know I bought the the prototype online, you know through
• 1:50:49
  all those weird eBay sellers I also have, I can't tell. We'll never
• 1:50:55
  know if this is either the Hypeerros or the WrestleMania Base. Yeah, there's
• 1:51:00
  no way to really tell, but I'm gonna pretend it's the WrestleMania Basic.
• 1:51:04
  That's Vladimir Kaslov's gear. And let's let's take note with this. The shamburger
• 1:51:10
  artwork that comes with these figures a nice touch for those you know, it's
• 1:51:15
  added value the stand and that that goes in the backdrop. It's pretty cool.
• 1:51:17
  One thing that did make me mad, though, is that when I
• 1:51:19
  first saw the picture of the zach Reder, it had the z R on
• 1:51:27
  the boots, which was removed because it's black on black. So because it's
• 1:51:30
  hard to see it's it's on the sample or the prototype image. But then
• 1:51:35
  when we get it, it's gone. That's a tough details adjust. I
• 1:51:40
  get it. But I love this gear because they make other elite figures.
• 1:51:44
  Because I steal the trunks from Warrior, steal the glasses from Macho. The
• 1:51:47
  jacket is sticking inspired. So it's like all three of my favorites in USA
• 1:51:53
  gear. Now I am paying tribute to that and I say, maybe Rosie
• 1:51:59
  signs it for you give it the Jimmy Duggan treat. I do, I
• 1:52:01
  do the red, white, blue sing I do very classy. Next up
• 1:52:08
  back in the line, he's bat Jack. But this one didn't. We've
• 1:52:14
  discussed in detail. It had the first time in the line thing. And
• 1:52:16
  I have like a one that slipped through the cracks and if you ever see
• 1:52:19
  him in on carbarding person, you could see that it's I got that like
• 1:52:23
  preparation where it was like ripped off on all of them. So Kirl Hawkins
• 1:52:27
  first time ever getting elite. Uh frick. I love, love, love
• 1:52:31
  love this figure, both versions. Wattell was cool enough to make a chase
• 1:52:38
  with the black. I just just adore it. I know, Bill like
• 1:52:42
  was very concerned about me being able to sell. So I have like a
• 1:52:45
  lot of added value of the vest, the cane. This is the beginning
• 1:52:49
  of the multiple hand era. And I also come with a giant raw wall
• 1:52:55
  that you can smash me through. It's supposed to just pick the time of
• 1:52:57
  the bronze. Strowman threw me through the raw set. So uh yeah,
• 1:53:00
  like I said, you know, you put over one hundred you know whatever,
• 1:53:03
  two hundred and something people. I felt this is one of those things
• 1:53:05
  that kind of made me feel like it was all worth it. And it's
• 1:53:09
  just such a nice figure. I have it on display here like this.
• 1:53:14
  I opposed this one with the raw title Matt and I would eventually win,
• 1:53:17
  and that one right there. I love to you get the chase out of
• 1:53:20
  it till you wait so long and then you get rewards. You felt like
• 1:53:24
  a reward, you know, Brett Hart inspired gear the chase one for sure.
• 1:53:29
  Oh I never realized that the gear is totally different too. Oh yeah,
• 1:53:32
  ah, that's cool. I don't know. Actually, over the years,
• 1:53:38
  this is a really strange like hand painted prototype that Mattel gifted me.
• 1:53:44
  I believe it at one Comic Con or something, or maybe a Mania access.
• 1:53:48
  It's the head is like so small, Like a lot of things changed.
• 1:53:53
  But I told Bill, actually I don't wear alpipads anywhere, to please
• 1:53:57
  remove him. So he was kind enough to do that in the final one.
• 1:53:59
  So a lot of the the prototypes and like the renders have elbow pads,
• 1:54:02
  which I don't have anymore. Here's a test shot I secured on eBay.
• 1:54:08
  That's cool, very cool. Now you also asked Bill to add the
• 1:54:11
  tattoos, right. Uh, well, at the time, it's just a
• 1:54:15
  Mackenzie tattoo, and I was very adamant about it because you can see here
• 1:54:18
  doesn't have it, and then the final product does have it and it's not
• 1:54:24
  completely accurate. But whatever. No, that was no. But I mean,
• 1:54:28
  like it's not accurate to that gear that you're wearing technically the regular version,
• 1:54:33
  I didn't have the Mackenzie tattoo yet. I don't think I ever wore
• 1:54:36
  this. I also don't think I ever wore this without elbow pads, because
• 1:54:42
  I was right when I stopped doing that. But I mean, I don't
• 1:54:44
  think any of that matters. This one is a little more the chase is
• 1:54:46
  a little more accurate, but man, just to I think the likeness and
• 1:54:50
  like I said, they added value and which is pretty awesome. So yeah,
• 1:54:56
  I remember we were at a wrestlemated access when he showed that off for
• 1:54:59
  the first time. That's yeah, And that's when he gave me a piece
• 1:55:01
  of paper and he showed me by Rich. Yes, I think that's where
• 1:55:06
  this weird hand painted one is from. It's like doesn't have all the decaul
• 1:55:11
  like on the side like some of the letters of don't I never saw them,
• 1:55:14
  Like, I don't know where they went. Like, it's like these
• 1:55:17
  are all like dcals. It's like this is a very fragile like and worth
• 1:55:23
  noting that you say, Wrestmany Access. This is the year that the Major
• 1:55:28
  Wrestling Figure podcast gets launched in August. You're right, so it hasn't launched
• 1:55:31
  yet. No, wow, and we're still extensive buddies. Maybe we're doing
• 1:55:35
  figure it out. Yeah, we're doing all. We're still the guys that
• 1:55:40
  anytime it tells working with ww they ask us to do that. You know,
• 1:55:42
  Okay, okay, this figure comes out Fall twenty eighteen. We start
• 1:55:46
  summer twenty eighteen. Got sure. So I'm also shown that day retro and
• 1:55:54
  I'm so happy to be in the line. Uh listen, now I love
• 1:55:58
  the figure. At the time, I was like, what the fuck is
• 1:56:00
  this such a weird Is this this this? This is legit the piece of
• 1:56:05
  paper they hand me, I'm like, what is this? It's clearly my
• 1:56:10
  MATEL retro. I'm sorry, my Mitel basic head on this body. And
• 1:56:14
  I'm like what Like because at the time, retros are either like really retro
• 1:56:17
  or like current day so like this weird pick. I would have done like
• 1:56:24
  one legged tights if we're gonna go rec ten nothing, Zach Ryder. It's
• 1:56:28
  a weird thing to pick. It finally ends up coming out that that year
• 1:56:33
  at Comic Con they remember why the action feature changed. No, I'm glad
• 1:56:38
  it did it. It's doing kind of like the woo yeah see it it's
• 1:56:44
  great. I love it. Very generic, like it literally has rider on
• 1:56:46
  the trucks z R. Nothing on the ass. It should have a license
• 1:56:50
  plate, right, I just realized till now it has nothing on the ass.
• 1:56:54
  To be honest, still, it's not detailed thing. I love it.
• 1:57:00
  You know, I have the the test shot. Of course, this
• 1:57:02
  is all stuff I got on eBay after the fact. I'm matell to not
• 1:57:05
  give this to me. Funny story though, there was a handpainted prototype at
• 1:57:10
  Comic Con and they would not give it to me. So I kind of
• 1:57:14
  like told John scene of the story. He's like, oh, I'll go
• 1:57:16
  over and I'll make sure they give it to you. So he went over
• 1:57:19
  and you know, talk to him to tell you guys like, oh,
• 1:57:21
  don't worry John, we'll give it to him. They never did. They
• 1:57:24
  lied to John Cena John, you can't do that. But I love this
• 1:57:29
  figure. It's so cool, like it's a privilege, right to get the
• 1:57:31
  privilege. Yeah, and I didn't tell guys knew how much it would mean
• 1:57:34
  to you, of course, because I did not deserve one based on my
• 1:57:40
  TV time. I think at the time I'm in the middle of not being
• 1:57:42
  on rawper whole calendar year. I was gonna say, you literally couldn't be
• 1:57:45
  doing less. This might be the less you've done in the moment that figures
• 1:57:47
  decided it's the least you're accomplishing, right, which makes it even more head
• 1:57:51
  scratching that we don't get WrestleMania figures later on. But you know, I
• 1:57:57
  digress great figure, and uh I love it. I I I absolutely love
• 1:58:00
  it. It's a I'm honored to be in the retro line one. So
• 1:58:04
  I totally totally totally dig it. So how many of those did you buy
• 1:58:11
  from Ringsye collectibles? I still have something I was gonna say you still there
• 1:58:15
  was like an epic sale at the end. There still five bucks and brisky.
• 1:58:19
  Still it's discount called major though, and save ten percent, right,
• 1:58:23
  that's right? Okay, Next up here it is oh Man I was there.
• 1:58:30
  We think we're gonna get Wrestlemedia thirty five figures, but we're gifted these
• 1:58:36
  Ghostbuster figures. Listen, they're cool, they're fine. They're one of ones.
• 1:58:42
  They do actually say Hawkins and Rider on the planet. I thought you
• 1:58:45
  sold yours. I honestly, bro, I was just looking forward. I
• 1:58:48
  was like, did I sell it? Well, I guess I kept it.
• 1:58:50
  It's been so it has the Rider and Hawkins. That's why I counted.
• 1:58:56
  And it's one of the soft goods things like, it's not like I
• 1:59:00
  don't know, you know, like I'm impressed by it. So I love
• 1:59:03
  it because I'm a Ghostbuster fan. Somebody made it right. It was cool.
• 1:59:08
  And you know, did do you have the trap that I came with
• 1:59:11
  it? Did I take the tab? Yeah? So I have this proudly
• 1:59:14
  on display, of course, but this is not a real figure. It's
• 1:59:17
  not a real figure. It's cool, but it's not a real It was
• 1:59:21
  like a thank you for hosting the panel that year, and we're sorry that
• 1:59:26
  we don't have new figure. It's a nice gesture, but I'm not a
• 1:59:30
  Ghostbuster fan. It means nothing to me really at the end of the day.
• 1:59:33
  Unfortunately, I mean, because really, the last depiction of me in
• 1:59:40
  WWE is a hypero like. I don't have a current figure, you know,
• 1:59:46
  so that that hypero gear is twenty seventeen. I get fired in twenty
• 1:59:50
  twenty. I don't have a I don't have a figure from twenty seventeen to
• 1:59:54
  twenty twenty. You know what I'm saying depicting that era? Yeah? Wow?
• 2:00:00
  Uh? Next up, we have this it's unreleased WWE Micromaniacs. Man,
• 2:00:06
  I forgot about this is another Jeremy. I have the prototype cool toy
• 2:00:12
  endeavor. Yeah, I had the really cool almost like to me, Mark
• 2:00:15
  and Vinnie had a toy fair. I believe that we've logged. It's almost
• 2:00:19
  like a rumbler again. Jeremy was squeezing me into the line, so I
• 2:00:23
  appreciate that, but never comes out. But I have the prototype, so
• 2:00:28
  there it is, doing the l I. I like these things. I
• 2:00:30
  like them. What could have been, what could have been, could have,
• 2:00:33
  would have, should have, but didn't. Next up, Oh,
• 2:00:40
  here we go. You think you know me? What a way to go
• 2:00:44
  out, What a way to go out? Guys, Brian was giving me
• 2:00:49
  so much, everyone's giving me. I was pitching it for years. We're
• 2:00:51
  legends, bro. But I was pitching it Edge with because they had just
• 2:00:56
  started doing the interchangeable heads, right yep, So think about it edge with
• 2:01:00
  a Hawkins head or right ahead, who's edge heads? And then it finally
• 2:01:05
  comes out. It finally is the real deal. You gotta buy three of
• 2:01:10
  them. That was the selling points to me. You gotta buy all three.
• 2:01:12
  You gotta buy three to make that. I think it's genius way to
• 2:01:15
  push figures right, So believe I believe rings. I went through a couple
• 2:01:19
  orders of these like these came in and and look, I finally get the
• 2:01:24
  beanie after all this time. The story folks scream in head the beanie.
• 2:01:30
  I love it. Now there's a change with the hair. I have the
• 2:01:33
  very blonde hair. We all have very blonde hair, Brian, which one
• 2:01:35
  do you have in your hand? The running change here the more accurate.
• 2:01:40
  This is one I do like better with like kind of the textured kind of
• 2:01:44
  features to our hair where it is really nice. Actually I never I never
• 2:01:47
  got that wild Yeah, I only had the So all I have is the
• 2:01:53
  sign version from high Spots. I actually sold my loose ones on whatnot?
• 2:01:58
  What one I have on displays when my favorite things time. Yeah, I
• 2:02:00
  mean look at the package here, it's Edge with his edgeheads. Look we're
• 2:02:03
  on the side, fully on the side and fully on the back. We
• 2:02:08
  had a complain to we about getting paid for this, and I still think
• 2:02:12
  it never happened. No, we got paid, but it was like chump
• 2:02:15
  change. Really yeah, we got paid. But because technically is an edge
• 2:02:18
  figure. But like what about us? I mean, we're our names and
• 2:02:21
  likenesses are all over the thing, like all over the thing. I mean,
• 2:02:25
  the coolest thing to me, in my opinion about this three pack is
• 2:02:29
  that you open it up, we come out of the fist. Yeah,
• 2:02:33
  little backdrop here. And for those of you going, what back when do
• 2:02:36
  you have all the tattoos? We wore the edge tattoos or a couple of
• 2:02:40
  times when we started, you know the run. I did not wear the
• 2:02:45
  beanie with the tattoos. But that's fine. Right now, there is a
• 2:02:48
  little rumor we have no confirmation of this, is that I was supposed to
• 2:02:54
  come out first in the decade of domination with ayan head. That that's what
• 2:03:01
  the original idea is. So I have all and now Brian has like a
• 2:03:05
  chin strap. I have all this stuff. Did I give you that head?
• 2:03:12
  Maybe? I mean I have like been of so much prototypes throughout my
• 2:03:15
  career, and like you know, I mean I just was just digging through
• 2:03:18
  it. It's wild. So it would have been. Now this is what
• 2:03:21
  we hear a Zach Ryder with tag team title. Now I got this on
• 2:03:28
  eBay, So who's you know? I don't know. That's crazy. I
• 2:03:34
  don't even remember you talking about that in the podcast. Yeah, so,
• 2:03:39
  which is a very short lived line. Yeah, so listen, I love
• 2:03:44
  this figure really really cool. Would have been really sweet if I still want
• 2:03:48
  to sign Legends deals and have Ringside do like the from the Vault of Hawkins
• 2:03:53
  and Rider Edge had solo their single releases, that it would be a dream.
• 2:03:58
  But yeah, all things is high. We literally have flashback Legends figures,
• 2:04:02
  so you know we're under forty. That's pretty pretty epic in my opinion,
• 2:04:06
  Like you know, I mean, we had flashback figures while we were
• 2:04:10
  still working. Well technically it's announced while we're still working for the company,
• 2:04:13
  right, it comes out when while we're fir. Yes, But so,
• 2:04:17
  I mean, I'll be forever grateful of this run and proud of this figure.
• 2:04:20
  Absolutely so cool to me and how poetic that our first ever figures from
• 2:04:25
  WWE are Edgeheads and our last ever figures are edge sheds now. So you
• 2:04:30
  know we debut, yes for now, We debut May two thousand and seven.
• 2:04:34
  We get fired April twenty twenty. Hell of a run, a lot
• 2:04:39
  of figures, but we were able to sneak a couple Hawkins and Riders in
• 2:04:44
  after the fact. But before that, let's talk about the figures that almost
• 2:04:48
  happened before we got fired. Brian, I'll let you, I'll let you
• 2:04:54
  tell the story. Here. Here we go, plugged into a lineup surface
• 2:04:59
  picture here. Uh basic, I can't tell you, but that's what it
• 2:05:03
  was. I believe I saw right my nuts. I believe I was replaced
• 2:05:09
  by Bobby Lashley figure, but I was plugged in ready to come out.
• 2:05:13
  The regular release is the Mets Colors. And then the chase was gonna be
• 2:05:17
  Finally, after all his bitching and morning and complaining, Macardona was gonna get
• 2:05:23
  his resume at thirty five wrestling figures. Man, Yeah, we're probably gonna
• 2:05:29
  get him. Ways like not to not to say that I wouldn't have wanted
• 2:05:33
  this to happen. Trust, me, I would have taken what I could
• 2:05:35
  have got. But this is like maybe the worst era of basics there is,
• 2:05:41
  like basics have been fixed now and they've been kind of saved, but
• 2:05:45
  this is during the minimum deco, minimum articulation era. I mean, there's
• 2:05:50
  no way I wore. Look at the boots on that METS one right,
• 2:05:54
  clearly missing deco hits and stuff. But it'd been great to get him though,
• 2:05:58
  of course. And this was very close to coming out because when you
• 2:06:02
  go by the numbers. Okay, so this was basic series one twelve and
• 2:06:06
  I you guys were released on the same day that Rowan was correct and Rowan
• 2:06:13
  comes out in series one to eleven. Yeah, okay, so I remember
• 2:06:17
  at the time going damn man, like they like, yeah, couldn't have
• 2:06:21
  been closer. I'm actually shocked, Like no, like, uh, at
• 2:06:27
  least test shots have never surfaced, to be honest with you, and I
• 2:06:30
  would love that because that's an all new head. That's like the most exciting
• 2:06:33
  thing for me, right, and we don't have images of mine because I
• 2:06:39
  got cut but I had Uh, I never resigned my contract, so what
• 2:06:45
  WW does or they let Mattel know, like who has resigned and who hasn't.
• 2:06:49
  There's like a pretty strict, like I would say, six month window.
• 2:06:54
  Yeah, so since I didn't resign, I was cut before they even
• 2:06:59
  I don't know if there are are there any photos out there. If there
• 2:07:00
  are, I don't have them. But this was the gear I was told
• 2:07:02
  I was supposed to be in the WrestleMania and also in Ghostbuster gear Ghostbuster inspired
• 2:07:10
  gear. So it would have been fucking awesome. But you know, got
• 2:07:15
  got fired but didn't resign before. But it wasn't like I'm not signing.
• 2:07:19
  We were still negotiating, and it was such a pain that it was.
• 2:07:23
  It was so stressful because now I'm saying to like Mark Rono, but can
• 2:07:26
  we fuck ushighs right, They're already fucking pulled my motel figure. He's like,
• 2:07:29
  what, No, they didn't. I'm like, I'm telling you they
• 2:07:30
  did. It's like, how do you know that? I'm like, I
• 2:07:31
  fucking know, And that's just business. It makes sense, Like why I
• 2:07:35
  would man tell, you know, go this year long process of something for
• 2:07:40
  it to just be a waste of money, you know, right, so
• 2:07:43
  maybe one day, but for now, not gonna get them. So but
• 2:07:47
  yeah, like I said, we were able to sneak some figures in after
• 2:07:53
  the fact major moments. Baby. Now it's technically, you know, Matt
• 2:08:00
  Corno and Brian Myers, but that is the wrestle Mania gear. It's a
• 2:08:05
  major moment. You know, legally it's Matt and Brian, but we all
• 2:08:11
  know what it is. I mean, and we've both made Matt and Brian
• 2:08:13
  gear like this since correct, right, so you know mine has the still
• 2:08:18
  major on the butt. Now, this is when we were doing like pure
• 2:08:22
  bootleg style ringside figures, so that's whether there's not any detail at all.
• 2:08:28
  Initially it was going to come out wearing the masks, right, but then
• 2:08:31
  we get fired, We're like, oh, let's do it without the mass,
• 2:08:35
  so the mass is still included. The mass are included because we were
• 2:08:37
  making some figures while in WWE, but obviously we could make our likeness,
• 2:08:43
  so we're wearing the masks to kind of hide it. But it was us
• 2:08:46
  all along. So the major moment, and that's not all through pro wrestling
• 2:08:54
  teas and micro brawlers. There is Rider and Hawks, so these still kind
• 2:09:01
  of count in my opinion. Do you count Brian, Yeah, of course
• 2:09:05
  if you're trying to be a ww era complete. It's for sure. I
• 2:09:11
  love mine has the accurate for the first time accurate purple, the rider on
• 2:09:16
  the butt and the variants are the Major brothers. They say Rider and Hawkins,
• 2:09:22
  but it's Brent and Brian Major. Don't tell anybody from WWE about that.
• 2:09:26
  Yeah, don't tell them. Don't tell you this now. They're also
• 2:09:30
  special, Brian? Do you even have your prototype? Your your one of
• 2:09:33
  one? Dude? So funny you say that I signed it last weekend?
• 2:09:39
  What someone brought it to me? You didn't try to buy it? What?
• 2:09:45
  It's cool and all? But I got I bought mine right there too?
• 2:09:48
  Rich for my blood? How much was it? I didn't want to
• 2:09:50
  get into it. I said, that's awesome, congrats I signed it.
• 2:09:54
  I felt like my pal to me, it's a prototype, so like I
• 2:09:58
  don't need it to be complete. It was released, Yeah, but it's
• 2:10:03
  the pro type man. It was blue by the way too. It was
• 2:10:11
  randomly inserted in crates. Yeah, they told a person told me they literally
• 2:10:15
  got in the Creighton. So it was released. Come on, bro,
• 2:10:20
  it was released. Mark back me up here was released? I agree.
• 2:10:22
  You guys are crazy? Uhde is that it for the figures. That's it.
• 2:10:26
  We got them all. Man, that was a long episode. Guys,
• 2:10:30
  thank you so much. It was worth the wait, I hope.
• 2:10:33
  Brian, what do you think? What's your favorite Kurt And what's your favorite
• 2:10:37
  Zach? And I'll tell you my favorite Curtains. Oh man, we're kind
• 2:10:39
  of we're lumping Jackson Mattel together together. Well, I'll go first, as
• 2:10:43
  I know, mine is the Hyperos fuck Off and the and the Squinkies Brian
• 2:10:48
  Squinkyes, Brian's great. Yeah, yeah, I'm going with the jerk Off
• 2:10:52
  Action Black Rider because it's so accurate. And then stop, I don't know,
• 2:11:01
  man, uh man, it's so tough. Obviously. I just want
• 2:11:05
  to like let everyone know how grateful I am, you know, for all
• 2:11:07
  these over the years, and you know, some of them I just think
• 2:11:09
  are so great. I got I'm gonna just say the Elite maybe the because
• 2:11:16
  of you know, what that run was and what it meant to me,
• 2:11:20
  you know, like truly like never giving up on yourself and having a positive
• 2:11:22
  attitude, you know, even though you're losing matches every night and stuff.
• 2:11:28
  And then to finally get that that people mill Bill not think that it would
• 2:11:31
  sell and people are very excited about it. It sold very well. There's
• 2:11:33
  a lot of points of pride that come with it. Hell yeah, yeah,
• 2:11:37
  my, that's definitely my favorite Kurt Hawkins and then my favorite Zach is
• 2:11:43
  I think it's got to be even though it's a basic the wrestle Maya thirty
• 2:11:46
  two with all the deco hits and with the match represents. Definitely that's my
• 2:11:50
  favorite one for sure. And maybe we'll get an elite one day flashback elite.
• 2:11:56
  You never know, You never never know. Restmate a total wind for
• 2:11:58
  sure, Like thinking if they're making Sandman figures, it's possible. No,
• 2:12:03
  no, no shot at Hack. I love Hack, but I feel like
• 2:12:07
  that makes it possible for like anybody, right, well, you you have
• 2:12:09
  to believe that there's going to be at some point, right, I'm sorry
• 2:12:15
  to this is just fantasy, but there's got to be an Ultimate Zach Wrighter
• 2:12:18
  twenty eleven at some point in the world, right, right, I mean,
• 2:12:24
  yeah, it's possible, right, yeah, I mean, you know,
• 2:12:28
  I don't see brings that exclusive. I don't see how that would be
• 2:12:31
  that far fetch, is all I'm saying. Yeah, it's wild. Yeah,
• 2:12:35
  all right, guys, Well listen we're gonna bring you the incarnation of
• 2:12:37
  Domination Matt and Brian eventually, because believe it or not, you know,
• 2:12:41
  we're very proactive in our careers. We have our own toy line. There
• 2:12:46
  might be more Matt and Brian's than there are Zach and Kurrs. Really awesome
• 2:12:50
  toyotak stuff too, and a lot of backstory about how it all got made.
• 2:12:56
  So you'll you'll get the ins and outs of all that coming up probably
• 2:13:00
  sometime later this year or early next year. Yeah, hell yeah, but
• 2:13:05
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